From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 19:35:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C524F106566B for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:35:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A028FC0A for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 233E68C080; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:18:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:18:22 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: "Julian H. Stacey" Message-ID: <20090923191822.GA11443@lonesome.com> References: <5311D83C-0DB0-4D10-B2AB-B61FD37178F7@gmail.com> <200909231554.n8NFsYwT078965@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909231554.n8NFsYwT078965@fire.js.berklix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:03:55 +0000 Cc: Rui Paulo , Alexey Shuvaev , hackers@freebsd.org, Nate Eldredge Subject: Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:35:09 -0000 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