From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 25 10: 2:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD7737B637 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:02:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06218; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:02:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <392D5D52.133E3F54@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:05:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Paterson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware References: <200005241446.IAA05589@berserker.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Paterson wrote: > > The argument, within BSDI, for supporting the older stuff is that > new embedded systems are being built with these processors. Raw > chip cost being the reason. While I believe the person telling me > this, I haven't personally seen the evidence, I haven't looked > either. 386ex, 486gx, ns486, elon400. Yup, designers are still using these chips in embedded systems. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message