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Date:      Thu, 06 Dec 2001 21:49:05 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? 
Message-ID:  <200112070449.fB74n5M95462@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:53:57 EST." <20011206115357.B71848@espresso.q9media.com> 
References:  <20011206115357.B71848@espresso.q9media.com>  <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> 

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In message <20011206115357.B71848@espresso.q9media.com> Mike Barcroft writes:
: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> 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.

I assume that you mean that the GENERIC kernel doesn't support i386.
You can still build a kernel for i386 machines on -current.

Warner

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