From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 17:48:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E014616A469 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:48:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBFB13C457 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:48:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so167725wra for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:48:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IyG/8deXDjbRzz5cY46lSOny38d4+hwP3lDFc09NBdwoMfXlXNarJ2altuu+bJ5TMaZheneBtp2UeHtT5WRP3NDNj2xDqrZJWARDhYcYTLSDUZCYPyFqQxGwOT2NhsJNg0EeOjA2sJ5PDUOzuM1R3fZrQKXhYgQVPbn3/BGqbuI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kvMejXUYb16IKnF76L/wLRET6cBjsfEdUfRwIcv2yD2C9NQp1f516LadvYEUGm/6TxVNDQ6TvrQ2tHonYlBILqWeu2wDiniGTqMl/KZtHcW0bhikLjOCMEZo+VHKBRcGrMEO4GaBA3aLITCLXlAFqNIGIXQ7qt3ehTp0HpSuCHw= Received: by 10.78.131.8 with SMTP id e8mr616997hud.1180027154209; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.107.13 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 10:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:19:14 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: johnea , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4655C238.7000809@johnea.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4655C238.7000809@johnea.net> Cc: Subject: Re: i386? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:48:07 -0000 A) this is not an appropriate forum, see -hackers B) this misconception has been brought up before please see the archives The GENERIC kernel needs to be a one size fits all ... On 5/24/07, johnea wrote: > > Hi, > > Don't know if this will make it through your spam filter, or if you'll have > the bandwidth to respond, but here goes. > > Why doesn't the FreeBSD project support a 32bit intel architecture newer > than 386? > > Pretty much every PC in operation today is at least 686/athalon. > > Wouldn't the architechtural improvements to the x86 architecture over the > last 10 years provide performance improvements to FreeBDSD? > > Just wondering, couldn't really find a forum to post such a question to. > > Thank you for reading my email! And thank you for your hard work on the > FreeBSD project! > > And if you have just a minute to craft an answer, Thank you for your reply! > > ciao... > > johnea > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >