From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 13:21:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE8537B699; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.com by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14HuZc-00034C-01; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:20:24 +0100 Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (520050424122-0001@[62.225.193.59]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 14HuZP-0x379UC; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:20:11 +0100 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E00AB0C; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:21:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CE6D014A5F; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:20:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:20:04 +0100 From: Alexander Langer To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mark Murray , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114222004.C1340@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za> <30911.979499109@critter> <20010114221145.A1340@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010114221145.A1340@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@freebsd.org on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:11:45PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. X-Sender: 520050424122-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@freebsd.org): > 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. I hate to follow up myself, but: I obviously missed Peter Wemm's email, where he already gave the reasons against this. Well, in this case - though I have emotional problems with this of course - I second the removal of all 386 specific code. 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