From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 8:45:56 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 B65A037B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4635643EC5 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:45:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26447 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2002 16:45:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Dec 2002 16:45:57 -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 gBGGjkUT009518; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:45:47 -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: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:45:44 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Lawson Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Erik Trulsson 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 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 <>< 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