From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 17 17:45:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [129.94.172.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E0D37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0HCZdV10836; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:39 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:39 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Will Andrews Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <20010117233539.C9153@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:16:18PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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