Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:08:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r227538 - head/tools/build Message-ID: <201111151708.50363.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EC2DF02.7030602@FreeBSD.org> References: <201111152015.pAFKFwqb015331@svn.freebsd.org> <20111115211449.GA476@zim.MIT.EDU> <4EC2DF02.7030602@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 4:52:02 pm Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2011-11-15 22:14, David Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011, Dimitry Andric wrote: > >> Note all the final executables will use 'real' atomic operations. That > >> is, unless you compile with CPUTYPE?=i386, and I wish you the best of > >> luck in that case, you'll need it. :) > > > > I thought we dropped support for anything less than a 486DX years ago. > > Well, theoretically you could still attempt to build for i386, but it is > almost sure to have bitrotted beyond any working state. The CPUTYPE > stuff in bsd.cpu.mk still seems to support it, as does gcc itself, of > course. And as mentioned in the commit message, until 2 years ago, the > default CPU for gcc was i386; which is the only reason for this commit. > > Indeed, I386_CPU support was removed from GENERIC more than 10 years > ago, in r71025. But even there it says: > > "Remove I386_CPU from GENERIC. Support for the 386 seriously pessimizes > performance on other x86 processors. Custom kernels can still be built > that will run on the 386." > > I wonder if that's still true... maybe it is time to really clean up any > pre-i486 leftovers. :) I think I removed all the i386 bits from the kernel a few years ago already: r137784 | jhb | 2004-11-16 15:42:32 -0500 (Tue, 16 Nov 2004) | 3 lines Initiate deorbit burn sequence for 80386 support in FreeBSD: Remove 80386 (I386_CPU) support from the kernel. -- John Baldwin
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