From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 15:10:32 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 B07C737B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DE943F3F; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0207.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.207] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18oXAb-0001XP-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:10:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3E5E9A93.9B51DC87@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:09:07 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Geoffrey , Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4a9bcd8efc180235f94770ec2ac71d7e9350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 John Baldwin wrote: > I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just accidentally > broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing. People who build embedded devices that need to be supported in the field, and want to worry about their software, and not the platform it runs on, don't use -current, FWIW. In fact, no one is likely going to, until it goes -stable. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message