From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 10:47:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB65537B404; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05D943FB1; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <2003041417471405300dp68ke>; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:47:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA25808; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:47:17 -0000 John, did you get eh messages of "ok" from both re. and the security officer to put this in RELENG_4_8 On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> My patch will not break anything. > >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch. > >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why > >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work. > > > > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X. > > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? ) > > 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons. In 5.x, you > have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support. 5.x does not support > 80386 machines out of the box. Installing a 5.x release on a 80386 > is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine. > You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp. > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >