Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:18:22 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>, Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, hackers@freebsd.org, Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> Subject: Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support Message-ID: <20090923191822.GA11443@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <200909231554.n8NFsYwT078965@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <5311D83C-0DB0-4D10-B2AB-B61FD37178F7@gmail.com> <200909231554.n8NFsYwT078965@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:54:34PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 4.11 fell out of security support some while back, but > http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html > only lists what's still in, not what fell out when. Then see http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/schedule/milestones.html. (Yes, I know the data for 7.2 and 8.0 are stale.) 4.11 support was extended again and again but ended 01/31/2007. Towards the end it was consuming a lot of people's time to support it, since everything newer had changed dramatically. > Free/ Net/ Open/ Dragon etc all derive from Bill Jollitz port of > BSD to 386. Would be nice if we could still keep that first platform > walking, even if speed can't be called running ;-) The same comment applies. Everything has changed dramatically. > Maybe I'll get time to chase down all that came before > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=137784 I honestly can't see why you would want to waste your time like this, but it's yours to waste I suppose. (Even a notorious packrat like me has gotten rid of hardware from that era.) mcl
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