From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 8:55: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BCC37B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB6GrvL75094; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:53:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:53:57 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Leo Bicknell Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011206115357.B71848@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> <3C0EF953.54CF24DB@mindspring.com> <3C0F0803.7010506@viasoft.com.cn> <3C0F0D02.8AEA9E48@mindspring.com> <20011206081059.A58740@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011206081059.A58740@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from bicknell@ufp.org on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:10:59AM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leo Bicknell writes: > The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator. > While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of > RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly > useful. 386 support has been removed from -CURRENT. -CURRENT also doesn't support 486SX's out of the box, one is required to load a kernel module from the loader if they need FPU emulation. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message