From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 16 8:35:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6CC37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:34:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14169; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:34:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA05112; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:34:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05106; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:34:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:34:45 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Will Andrews Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU In-Reply-To: <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OH ok, just curious how that was going to work. ================================================================= | 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, Will Andrews wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > 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? > > I don't think it's worth the effort. By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out, > the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has > already reached that point and gone beyond). There are not likely to be > many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs. > > People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own > kernel and such. > > -- > wca > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message