From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 07:39:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461C837B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAE543F85 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 16050 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 14:37:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Apr 2003 14:37:21 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3EEawOv066484; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200304140850.h3E8ohD94528@flip.jhs.private> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:37:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:39:27 -0000 On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: >> My patch will not break anything. >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch. >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work. > > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X. > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? ) 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons. In 5.x, you have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support. 5.x does not support 80386 machines out of the box. Installing a 5.x release on a 80386 is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine. You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/