Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:08:17 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ed@80386.nl Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r205307 - head/sys/i386/conf Message-ID: <20100319.110817.359828849554409880.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100319114426.GO32142@hoeg.nl> References: <201003190116.o2J1Gr2v094129@svn.freebsd.org> <20100319114426.GO32142@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
: * Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
: > Log:
: > SSE is enabled by default about 5 years ago so there is no point pretending
: > that we support I486 and I586 CPUs in the GENERIC kernel, users wants these
: > support would have to build a custom kernel to explicitly disable SSE
: > anyways.
: >
: > MFC after: 1 month
:
: Could we please leave i586 here? I agree people should throw their
: Pentiums on the scrapyard, but only supporting i686 by default is a bit
: too agressive in my opinion.
I don't think we should MFC this change at all. Geodes are still
fairly popular machines and have 486 cores in them.
Warner
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