Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:53:37 +0200 (EET) From: Eugene Polovnikov <eugene@brain-fag.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <200101181353.f0IDrbK21441@relay1.bcs.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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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
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