From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 02:26:36 2004 Return-Path: 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 156E216A4CE; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:26:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D4D43D48; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:26:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (jn@c-24-2-72-123.client.comcast.net [24.2.72.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9I2QZ7j013652; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:25:55 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041016174925.GA96809@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041017183525.GA1717@frontfree.net> <20041018022017.GA50477@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041018022017.GA50477@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410172025.55534.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: [PATCH] optimizing X now that we don't support i386 CPU's on 6-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:26:36 -0000 On Sunday 17 October 2004 08:20 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > I remember someone tried a few years ago after this commit to get FreeBSD > 5-CURRENT running on an I386 and had to hack some things to get it work. > Since no one has reported success in doing this since then I'm willing to > bet you dinner next time I'm in Bejing that we've broken running on real > I386's w/o realizing it. Just to add a data point- I installed FreeBSD 5.2 or thereabouts on a 386DX machine some months ago without any unexpected trouble. (The expected trouble involved making a custom world and set of installation floppies.) I think I set it up to act as a firewall/router, but don't remember if I tested it out much. It's currently in storage.so I can't fire it up to play with too easily. JN