From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 18 6:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.bcs.zp.ua (bcs-marka.bcs.zp.ua [217.24.163.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1182737B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eugen@localhost) by relay1.bcs.zp.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0IED3H22106; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:13:03 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:13:03 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <200101181413.f0IED3H22106@relay1.bcs.zp.ua> From: Eugene Polovnikov Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU To: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> User-Agent: tin/1.5.6-20000803 ("Dust") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.2-RELEASE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG how about to have in a distribution two version of GENERIC kernel (and modules of course) and let sysinstall choose right set ? In article <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> you wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at 9:28:43 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >>> Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic >>> kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so >>> are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a >>> special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support >>> in it? >> >> I don't think it's worth the effort. By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out, >> the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has >> already reached that point and gone beyond). There are not likely to be >> many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs. >> >> People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own >> kernel and such. > 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. > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- end of forwarded message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message