Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 04:59:23 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Charles Lecklider <freebsd-stable@lists.invis.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Cannot find announcement that min supported i386 CPU is now i686 Message-ID: <1d996708-3c3f-b5ea-a9f7-a4b0e9e7c377@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <4460db23-9a29-7972-1b41-74585764a5d7@lists.invis.net> References: <4460db23-9a29-7972-1b41-74585764a5d7@lists.invis.net>
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01.09.2020 1:00, Charles Lecklider via freebsd-stable wrote: > Having just trashed my dual Pentium 233 MMX by installing 11.4 I went > digging to find the cause - and I found it. > > As you can see from objdump below, clearly a decision was made that 11.4 > would no longer support anything before a i686. > > Ignoring for a moment the wisdom of making breaking changes to a minor > version, please could someone tell me where the announcement was made? https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html section 11.1 discusses the topic in context of upcoming FreeBSD 13. There was some discussion on the topic in the freebsd-arch mailing list about a year ago: https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=75083+0+archive/2019/freebsd-arch/20191006.freebsd-arch It seems there was no announcement on the change for 11.x branch. I wonder how much RAM does your Pentium 233 MMX have and what part of the RAM is cacheable by the chipset? :-)
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