From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 14 12:41:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.salientsystems.com (pokey.salientsystems.com [204.210.234.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB8E37B479; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from salientsystems.com (rusty [192.168.0.90]) by zippy.salientsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA34997; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:49:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nludban@salientsystems.com) Message-ID: <3A11A451.3C8A92B7@salientsystems.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:45:05 -0500 From: Neil Ludban Reply-To: nludban@pokey.salientsystems.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd really miss support for the older processors. I'm spending considerable time and effort trying to get 4.x to boot on a 386ex based SBC. I'm never going to use all the latest features of FreeBSD, but it is a requirement that I be able to load a laptop computer with a full development and testing environment, then drive an hour or more from civilization to the installation site to get some work done. The 486 SBCs are quite a price jump, especially when all I need is a couple serial ports. Just my two cents worth- --Neil > > What is the current processor of choice for embedded stuff? Is x86 even a > good architecture for embedded work? That is the only place that I would see > the 386 still being alive... > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message