Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:04:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware Message-ID: <200005251504.JAA01226@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 09:52:04 PDT." <200005241652.JAA75843@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200005241652.JAA75843@apollo.backplane.com> <200005241446.IAA05589@berserker.bsdi.com> <392BF518.F8170D0E@newsguy.com>
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In message <200005241652.JAA75843@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : For SMP kernels I don't think it's worth supporting either the 386 or : the 486. I agree 100%. I don't want to see that hold up the current work. If someone really wants to do a sequent port, then when they have code to merge we can talk. I'd rather put the burdon on the theoretical porters to an older SMP platform than on the real works porting to modern SMP platforms. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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