From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 14 11:38:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A2B37B479; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAEJcMR13066; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:38:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA49433; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:38:22 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011141938.MAA49433@harmony.village.org> To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Cc: John Baldwin , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:57:29 +0100." <20001114075729.G333@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001114075729.G333@freebie.demon.nl> <11485.974210886@critter> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:38:22 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001114075729.G333@freebie.demon.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: : Dropping 386 seems sound to me. 486 probably has quite some users left. : DNS/NTP/whatever servers in dark corners come to mind. The dropping 386 from the i386 port seems odd to my mind :-) Seriously, I think that dropping support for 386 will do more harm in the marketing arena than good tht the similified code base will give us. Just my two cents. The 486 *MUST* remain supported through at least 5.x. There lots of good, cheap 486 single board computers being built and deployed today. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message