Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:11:45 +0100 From: Alexander Langer <alex@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114221145.A1340@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <30911.979499109@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:05:09PM %2B0100 References: <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za> <30911.979499109@critter>
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Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@critter.freebsd.dk): > >Does it make any sense at all to make 80386 a separate platform > >a'la pc98/alpha/ia64? Do enough people care about it? > No it doesn't. I think you'll find that running 5.x in less than > 32MB is going to be painfull or impossible in the first place. A little bit of the ramainding mystique of free open-source UNIX-like operating system for me is the fact, that you still can run it on i386 machines with usable speed (e.g. small private home mail-servers). Given the fact that we usually stop supporting releases that are too old (e.g. the 2.x branch and I suppose RELENG_3 soon), I somehow dislike the idea of not supporting the i386 any more. I think you really can trim 5.x down to work w/o pain on a i386 once installed. A decision must be made. If removing support for the i386 has gradious performance or memory advantages for the ramainding platforms, I second removing the code. On the other hand, if we only remove it from GENERIC, we could provide a trimmed down i386 kernel, which doesn't include support for PCI and PCCARD devices. This kernel should work on small machines with better speed and less memory usage. Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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