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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
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On 2001-Jan-15 00:08:12 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote:
>The patch below does this:
>http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/i386_cleanup.diff
...
>To be clear:  THIS DOES NOT REMOVE i386 SUPPORT!  It will actually slightly
>improve i386 runtime speed by removing the useless conditional tests.

IMHO, this is the right approach.  I don't see any reason to rip out
the (working) 386 code.  If it rots due to lack of interest in future,
then it can be stripped out.

Note that the patch doesn't currently handle the PC98.

Peter


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