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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:42:14 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? 
Message-ID:  <98262.1046446934@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:34:53 EST." <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>I personally think that we should not support the 80386 in 5.x.
>However when that has been brought up before there were a lot of
>theoretical objections.

Well, unless somebody actually manages to put a -current on an i386
and run the tests I suggested in a couple of weeks, then I think
those theoretical objections stand very weakly in the light of
proven reality :-)

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