Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:45:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410192038250.24265-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20041019215007.GA13217@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, David Schultz wrote: > Yes, and very few of those [embedded systems] folks are likely to want > a relatively large, non-realtime, monolithic, multi-threaded OS kernel, > much less a userland that even vaguely resembles a standard FreeBSD > installation. I think it's fair to ask, are there any such people (e.g. using FreeBSD on embedded systems)? I mean, my background includes a lot of embedded systems work so I'm biased towards it, but there is also no point in trying to optimize FreeBSD for a null set of users. (That's what the ports tree is for. Hey, don't throw that 386 box at me!) > \me can't wait for the day when developers are no longer required > to spend time and effort to support anything older than a PPro. How much of the source base has code specific to that case? Well, in some ways, all of this is probably just jumping the gun on a wider discussion of what we want 6.x to be. I'm hoping that that will start fairly soon after 5.3 goes out the door ... mcl
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