From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 21:52:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C50F16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D8643D58 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:52:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAPLtBah070250; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:55:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41A65428.4050003@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:52:40 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Szymanski References: <41A58384.30603@yahoo.com> <200411251310.iAPDAoVE027219@lurza.secnetix.de> <4808.10.0.0.26.1101417953.squirrel@10.0.0.26> In-Reply-To: <4808.10.0.0.26.1101417953.squirrel@10.0.0.26> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:52:09 -0000 Brian Szymanski wrote: >>Note that you will need a hardware FPU (i387 math co-pro). >>FreeBSD 4.x supports math emulation, so you don't need a >>hardware FPU there, but apparently theffort to phase 80386 support out of the OS. It's been nearly 20at support has been >>removed in FreeBSD 5.x. > > > Out of curiosity, what happened to this code? > > Was there some incompatibility, did it have the wrong license, etc? > > Cheers, > Brian > Both FPU emulators were removed about a year ago as part of the gradual effort to phase 80386 support out of the OS. It's been nearly 20 years since the 80386 family was launched, and it's getting pretty long in the tooth. The tradeoffs for supporting both modern processors and the 386 are pretty ugly, and we'd really like to focus on making modern processors perform well rather than keeping very ancient processors running. 6.0 is not going to have any 80386 support at all, so consider this another sign to either upgrade your hardware or consider an older FreeBSD release (2.2.x ?) for your needs. Scott