Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:45:44 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <XFMail.20021216114544.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150115060.41793-100000@root.org>
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On 15-Dec-2002 Nate Lawson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> The only remotely good reason I have heard for removing support for 386 >> in the default configuration is that having it in would pessimize >> performance too much for more modern CPUs. How valid that reason is I >> cannot judge, but I guess it is possible. > > Could someone enlighten me as to why we don't leave 386 support in for the > boot kernel so the floppies will at least boot? Note that performance > shouldn't be an issue when installing. After you reboot after you install the kernel you just installed won't boot. Pretty pointless. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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