From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 15:44: 3 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 5B4E237B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BB843ED1 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBGILqk5003787; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:21:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Johnson David Cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:55:14 PST." <200212160955.14531.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:21:52 +0100 Message-ID: <3786.1040062912@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 In message <200212160955.14531.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, Johnson David writes: >On Saturday 14 December 2002 08:53 pm, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> 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. > >Okay, here's a compromise solution for all those people still needing 386 >support out of the box: make a 5.0-mini-386.iso image. Sure, send us the necessary patches to do so and we'll look at it. Poul-Henning PS: If you are asking _us_ to spend _our_ time doing this: Forget it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message