Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1003191721371.25775@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <4BA3E9DF.2050303@delphij.net> References: <4BA2CE17.2050105@delphij.net> <201003190751.26767.jhb@freebsd.org> <4BA3C41F.3000404@elischer.org> <5BED0721-442C-44B3-8B23-3D94BE5354A9@samsco.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1003191609030.25775@sea.ntplx.net> <4BA3E9DF.2050303@delphij.net>
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Xin LI wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2010/03/19 13:15, Daniel Eischen wrote: > [...] >> Well, we have nanobsd, but having a suitable install tool >> for small flash-based systems where you want a nanobsd-like >> setup (readonly filesystems) would be very nice. I try >> to write procedures for our embedded systems so others >> (neophytes) can create and burn them, but it might be >> easier for someone to get started with embedded systems >> if they could do it from a release using an install tool. > > Some computation intense tasks would benefit from enabling certain > optimizations which is not suitable for older processors. > > However, just like John said servers tends to use 64-bit platform more > than 32-bit ones, so perhaps we can just dismiss the idea of enabling > these optimizations on FreeBSD/i386 platform and focus on FreeBSD/amd64... Perhaps I was wrong, but I thought Scott's question was more general: is there a desire for a special installation suitable to small appliances (usually flash-based)? Sorry, I didn't mean to steal the thread. -- DE
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