Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:27:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] optimizing X now that we don't support i386 CPU's on 6-CURRENT Message-ID: <20041017182716.GB41354@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041017153856.GA460@frontfree.net> References: <20041016174925.GA96809@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041017153856.GA460@frontfree.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:38:56PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Hi, David > > I really like to see this happen, as it means we are going to support > modern hardware better, without completely set a barrier for supporting > older hardware. > > By committing this, would you please add something into src/UPDATING > like: > > 200410XX: > Certain part in libc's i386 assembly source code has been changed > in favor of using instructions available only on newer processors > for performance considerations. In order to get libc run on > 80386 processors, you will have to define I386_CPU. We've already so desupported running 6-CURRENT on the original i386 processor, I'd rather not create the appearance that it is still supported and easy to do by simply defining one thing. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041017182716.GB41354>