From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 12:14:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD7A37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0BA43FA3 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 8334 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 19:15:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Apr 2003 19:15:03 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3EJEsOv067017; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:14:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:14:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:14:58 -0000 On 14-Apr-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > John, did you get eh messages of "ok" from both re. and the security > officer to put this in RELENG_4_8 jhb 2003/04/14 07:36:19 PDT FreeBSD src repository Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4_8) sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c Log: MFS: Fix booting on 80386 machines. CD vendor's may want to re-roll their own release to include this fix. Approved by: re (murray) Revision Changes Path 1.80.2.14.2.1 +1 -1 src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> > Erik Trulsson wrote: >> >> My patch will not break anything. >> >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch. >> >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why >> >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work. >> > >> > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X. >> > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? ) >> >> 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons. In 5.x, you >> have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support. 5.x does not support >> 80386 machines out of the box. Installing a 5.x release on a 80386 >> is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine. >> You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp. >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/