Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:35:01 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r353936 - head/contrib/llvm/tools/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Arch Message-ID: <CAPyFy2A7XCa=tXPgypPnUpsT7%2Bfg=UOdKvKRy7RUOgWyk2LDLw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20191024082609.GA63459@FreeBSD.org> References: <201910231657.x9NGvCMD039111@repo.freebsd.org> <20191024082609.GA63459@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 04:26, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Why i686, not i586? i486 lacking 64-bit atomics is a sound and valid > reason, but I don't understand why i586 wasn't chosen, and quick review > of that -arch thread did not help. Could you shed some more light here? i686 as a minimum allows a switch to PAE page tables. In my opinion we should still allow building FreeBSD for i586 (and I would like to have such a case in our hardware CI lab), but the default for the installation images and prebuilt packages should be i686.
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