From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 28 16:47: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (unknown [208.149.16.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C66AB15483 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA03541; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:45:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:45:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high-efficiency SMP locks - submission for review References: <19990628171823.3445882@overcee.netplex.com.au> <199906282247.IAA10502@cimlogic.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14200.2161.578451.967112@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth John Birrell on Tue, 29 June: : : Some of us use the 386EX as an embedded processor in low power (~2W) : memory based applications. Dropping support for 386 (UP) from FreeBSD : would fork a new *BSD! Just to make explicit the obvious: That's why there's a "cpu I386_CPU" config option; there's no reason to retain 386 compatibility if it isn't present. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message