From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 11:46:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08074 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08067 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:46:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15141; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:46:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd015110; Mon Nov 23 12:46:11 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25506; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:46:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811231946.MAA25506@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:46:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, joelh@gnu.org In-Reply-To: from "John Polstra" at Nov 23, 98 08:24:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No. Have you even read this thread? > > This thread is about whether to expend significant effort and > sacrifice significant elegance and maintainability in order to > _slightly_ _optimize_ system calls for 486 systems. It has nothing > to do with whether we support 486 systems or not. Sounds more like a libc compilation option anyway; we have to maintain the old entrypoint anyway, for binary backward compataibility. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message