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Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove i386 from bsd.cpu.mk
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2012, at 9:19 PM, Eike Dierks wrote:
>> i386 will then still be supported by netbsd. so nothing is lost.
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> FreeBSD removed i386 support years ago.

While this may seem pedantic, it's probably worth it for the benefit of later 
search engine queries and confused readers: at the time of writing, FreeBSD 
had removed support for 80386, rather than i386, years ago. :-)

(Since we overload i386 to also mean i486 in an architecture naming sense, 
...)

Robert


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>> we might even be a bit more aggressive
>> on getting rid of that old cruft.
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>> the freebsd kernel should be tuned towards
>> the recent cpus.
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> This is already done.
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> Warner
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>> Is there anyone working on transactional memory?
>> ~eike
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>> On Dec 1, 2012, at 15:48 , Dimitry Andric wrote:
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>>> On 2012-11-29 23:33, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>>> I'd like to remove i386 from bsd.cpu.mk on head.  Please see the
>>>> attachment.  It is also available from here:
>>>>
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/cpu-i386.diff
>>>>
>>>> Any objection?
>>>
>>> No, please commit.  Deorbit of i386 complete! ;)
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