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From: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
To: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:23:49PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:11:02AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 
> > > I think you people need to decide to either drop support for 80386
> > > completely (in which case all the '#ifdef I386_CPU' and similar can go
> > > away) or decide to keep support for it, in which case most things
> > > should just work 'out of the box' on a 80386 (without recompilation
> > > needed more than absolutely necessary.)
> > 
> > I don't really see your point; what's wrong with having support for i386,
> > just being hidden behind the need to tweak some things (i.e. to recompile
> > a custom kernel)?  Methinks that we can expect certain level of competence
> > of someone who is willing to install FreeBSD-5 on i386, definitely being
> > able to rebuild a kernel (which is actually pretty easy to do compared to
> > Linux, for me at least).  There's also an option of putting GENERIC-386
> > next to GENERIC config file in /sys/i386/conf.
> 
> I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several days.
> 

Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would
have to do it on another box anyway.