From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 15 13:38:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD33D37B404; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA33680; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:38:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Wemm Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Andrea Campi , Poul-Henning Kamp , developer@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC References: <200101150808.f0F88CQ01192@mobile.wemm.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Jan 2001 22:38:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:08:12 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: > 1: it removes the 486-and-above code from the 386-only cases. > 2: it removes the runtime conditionals that everybody currently executes > if I386_CPU is present > 3: prevents people shooting themselves in the foot at 'make depend' stage > if they accidently activate I386_CPU. Add a big fat comment to GENERIC warning users not to include I386_CPU in their configs if they can help it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message