From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 11: 5:51 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D851C37B400; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0EJ59Z30913; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:05:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Murray Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:58:23 +0200." <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <30911.979499109@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: >> There is at least a full year until the first semi-reliable 5.0 >> release is a possibility. >> >> 4.x-stable as at least two years in it yet. >> >> I think it's the time to throw i386 over the railing and lower the >> waterline a fair bit on -current. > >Does it make any sense at all to make 80386 a separate platform >a'la pc98/alpha/ia64? Do enough people care about it? No it doesn't. I think you'll find that running 5.x in less than 32MB is going to be painfull or impossible in the first place. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message