From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 24 8:29: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5006837BCB6 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p28-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.29]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id AAA06520; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:28:54 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <392BF518.F8170D0E@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 00:28:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Paterson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware References: <200005241446.IAA05589@berserker.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Paterson wrote: > > I have talked to a couple of people who think that supporting this > older stuff won't be important to FreeBSD by the time the kernel > is preemptive. Some even thought supporting the original Pentium > processors might not be required. I'll propose the following as it > reduces the work required: > > Once FreeBSD has a preemptive kernel FreeBSD will only run on > Pentium or better X86 processors. We had a lot of trouble already making people give up on their MFM/RLL controllers! Personally, I think this is the way to go, but not before 6.0. If 5.0 doesn't work on 486's, there'll be hell to pay. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message