From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 15 1:17:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E428C37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:17:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6925343EC2 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 43434 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Dec 2002 09:17:29 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:17:29 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Erik Trulsson Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC In-Reply-To: <20021215090551.GA10215@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > The only remotely good reason I have heard for removing support for 386 > in the default configuration is that having it in would pessimize > performance too much for more modern CPUs. How valid that reason is I > cannot judge, but I guess it is possible. Could someone enlighten me as to why we don't leave 386 support in for the boot kernel so the floppies will at least boot? Note that performance shouldn't be an issue when installing. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message