Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:39 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <20010117233539.C9153@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:16:18PM -0500 References: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net>
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On Wednesday, 17 January 2001 at 19:16:18 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:21:15PM +1100, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Don't forget that the i386 is still a popular CPU for embedded work. >> Of course, embedded people will have less of an issue with sysinstall. > > Of course. But of these people, which really need 5.x's features over > 4.x? I thought about that, too. I came to the conclusion "probably not", but 4.x won't be maintained for ever. > Plus they can still compile I386_CPU by itself, which I'm sure they > already do to keep the kernel size as small as possible. Sure. As I said, the installation would be much more specific anyway. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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