Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:28:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, Eike Dierks <eike@inter.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove i386 from bsd.cpu.mk Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212021626480.18806@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <7CE08ADD-F314-4912-9211-22B1BDF654E4@bsdimp.com> References: <50B7E2D3.6070206@FreeBSD.org> <50BA18CB.2080001@FreeBSD.org> <ECE1111F-65D5-4890-908D-F972FA730921@inter.net> <7CE08ADD-F314-4912-9211-22B1BDF654E4@bsdimp.com>
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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. > > 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 > >> we might even be a bit more aggressive >> on getting rid of that old cruft. >> >> the freebsd kernel should be tuned towards >> the recent cpus. > > This is already done. > > Warner > >> >> Is there anyone working on transactional memory? >> ~eike >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 1, 2012, at 15:48 , Dimitry Andric wrote: >> >>> 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! ;) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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