From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 20 0:51: 7 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4089C37B403; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9K7orM17969; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65903808; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Baldwin Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011020075053.C65903808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@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: > > On 20-Oct-01 David E. O'Brien wrote: > > obrien 2001/10/19 18:15:54 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/conf GENERIC > > Log: > > Drop support for x87 emulation. Any CPU one would dare to run 5-CURRENT > > on would have built-in FP support. > > Specifically, this drops out of the box support for 486sx's. The idea being > that if you have a 486sx you are either running an older more trimmed down > version of FreeBSD or building a custom release with a custom kernel that can > add back in the emulation code. This saves us some room on the boot floppy a t > least. :) You can also kldload the math emulator from the loader. This would be a good thing for somebody to do some patches to get it onto the extra drivers disk and/or have it autoloaded on boot after install. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message