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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:16:01 -0500
From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>,
	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 ?
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References: <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <98262.1046446934@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri Feb 28, 2003 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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 :-)

Anyways, nothing keeps a old hardware freak (like me) to take over the
maintainership of 386-related stuff, if he wants to.

Thing is, no one stepped forward at this time, so I guess this settles
the future of the 386.

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