Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:38:53 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> Cc: "phk@FreeBSD.ORG" <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>, Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <a05200f07ba236b43bf1f@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20021215164004.A174-100000@guava.silverwraith.com> References: <33254.1039905426@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021215164004.A174-100000@guava.silverwraith.com>
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At 4:45 PM -0800 2002/12/15, Avleen Vig wrote:
> How difficult would the following be to develop, in your opinion?
> A boot disk image (like the sets of images on the website tm) that will
> boot on 386's as well as more modern CPU's that can newfs and disklabel
> your drives, download the source, and let you compile from that point.
How many uninterrupted days/weeks would you be willing to allow a
"make world" to run?
> something to compile with - which can be downloaded with the source
> all precompile so the do work on all x86 CPU's.
If you're compiling the code (as would be necessary, since
386-compatible code would not be included in any of the regular
binaries), then there is no such thing as "pre-compiled" anything.
Morever, the concept of compiling something is mutually exclusive
to getting a pre-compiled copy of that same something.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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