From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 15:32: 2 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 8C0D137B406 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5EF43F75 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:31:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4453 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 23:32:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 27 Feb 2003 23:32:08 -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 h1RNULhT028031; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:30:21 -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: <3E5E9A93.9B51DC87@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:32:12 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Geoffrey , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garance A Drosihn 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 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. We sure are using -stable where I work. :) Granted, we aren't using 80386's either. -- 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