Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:24:19 -0500 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386 do not support i386 Message-ID: <43864BA3.3040102@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4386437F.7090607@chdevelopment.se> References: <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se> <4386437F.7090607@chdevelopment.se>
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Christer Hermansson wrote: > Christer Hermansson wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release >> notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the >> x86 platform. >> >> Not very important issue for me but it feels little strange to have a >> i386 platform that don't support/work on i386 processors. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#KERNEL >> "Support for 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration >> option) has been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use >> FreeBSD 5./X/ or earlier." >> >> >> Christer Hermansson >> > It's a lot of names around us, not only in the computer world, that > has become less suitable during the time because of progress and other > things, but still is in use because of different factors. > > I missed to write in my first mail that I also have the feeling (maybe > I'm wrong) that "x86" is more recognized / common in the media nowadays. > > However in this case maybe it's best to keep "i386" because a lot of > things depends on this name and it would be a lot of work/problems to > change it. > > This was just one thought I had but it seems to be a bad one. > > Best regards Christer Hermansson > I totally agree with you, x86 is a much more recognized representation. I'd just hate to be the one having to do all the code modifications to "Make it Work(tm)" find /usr/src /usr/ports -type f | xargs sed -i '.bak' "s/i386/x86/g" Only in a perfect "world" right? :) Regards, Frank
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