From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 15:32: 0 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 47BFB37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:31:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4FF43F3F for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:31:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12614 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 23:32:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 27 Feb 2003 23:32:06 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RNUJhT028028; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:30:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:32:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org 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 On 27-Feb-2003 Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just accidentally >>broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing. >>People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer >>either. I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for >>rather long periods of time before being noticed as well. > > Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release > process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel? It points out that no one uses I386 kernels. Is it more valuable to have GENERIC_I386 or KDE on disc 1? If it came down to that I would pick KDE. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message