From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 4:36:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4FE37B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0543FA3; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RCakaa006002; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:36:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: David Schultz Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:24:05 PST." <20030227122405.GA61097@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:36:46 +0100 Message-ID: <6001.1046349406@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030227122405.GA61097@HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes: >Just out of curiosity, is your agenda to convince everyone to nix >386 support altogether or to fix 386 support? I'm not against >either, although I consider the latter goal to be a bit silly. My agenda is to find some data either in support of or disproving a theory I have about a timing related issue. I realize that we may instead end up with some entirely different data which proves that we should not carry 386[sd]x support forward in RELENG_5. If so I can live with that, I'll have to find another way to find "my" datapoints then. I also don't think we should even think about redecorating this particular bikeshed at this time. If two weeks from now nobody has managed to get -current on a genuine 386[sd]x CPU, then we have a new data point which might merit discussion. Right we would just have the usual arm-chair generals and pundits pounding their pulpits. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message