Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:06:13 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <20030228.140613.25161750.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <54906.1046466049@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030228.135726.11052754.imp@bsdimp.com> <54906.1046466049@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <20030228.135726.11052754.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
: >In message: <98262.1046446934@critter.freebsd.dk>
: > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: >: 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 :-)
: >
: >Two weeks notice is too short to put something to the sword.
:
: I'm not suggesting we should.
Just making sure. We have some a few embedded systems coming back
from the field soon and I plan on trying some tests on them (they are
amd 386, so might not be good for you).
Also, 386-core based chips are still in production (or have been in
the last year). It has only been very recently that the embedded
chips have transitioned to 486. Calling them, as others have, 10
years obsolete is a bit of an overstatement...
Warner
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