Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:16:14 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org>
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Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support in it? ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > I've requested a change for UPDATING: > > The kerrnel option I386_CPU is now mutually exclusive with the > other cpu types. If you have an i386 system, be sure that it > only had this line. Remove it for all other configurations. > > Note that this does not remove i386 support. The actual commit message > follows: > > Modified files: > sys/i386/conf NOTES > sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c machdep.c pmap.c support.s > sys/pc98/conf GENERIC > sys/pc98/i386 machdep.c > Log: > Stop doing runtime checking on i386 cpus for cpu class. The cpu is > slow enough as it is, without having to constantly check that it really > is an i386 still. It was possible to compile out the conditionals for > faster cpus by leaving out 'I386_CPU', but it was not possible to > unconditionally compile for the i386. You got the runtime checking whether > you wanted it or not. This change makes I386_CPU mutually exclusive with > the other cpu types, and tidies things up a little in the process. > > Reviewed by: alfred, markm, phk, benno, jlemon, jhb, jake, grog, msmith, > jasone, dcs, des (and a bunch more people who encouraged it) > > Cheers, > -Peter > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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