From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 8:45:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BEE37B408 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7AAE43ED1 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9385 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2002 16:45:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Dec 2002 16:45:50 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBGGjaUT009515; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:45:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DFC0AB1.D60AAF66@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:45:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Johnson David , phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Dec-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > Alex wrote: >> It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a >> 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to >> get that version to the 386. > > Yes, this is true. Several of us were annoyed by the change, > which appeared at the time to have been done solely to handle > the fact that the newly installed device /dev/random sucked > too much CPU time to work on a 386. > > The /dev/random code has since improved to not suck so much > CPU time, but the 386 code was not reenabled. > > The best answer out there is "the majority has spoken", with > the idea being that if you are deploying on 386 hardware, you > are an embedded systems vendor, and are willing to live with > the process effectively being a cross-compilation. This has nothing to do with /dev/random. Please stop with the constant FUDing Terry. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message