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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:11:10 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: high-efficiency SMP locks - submission for review
Message-ID:  <199906290011.KAA10915@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <14200.2161.578451.967112@avalon.east> from Anthony Kimball at "Jun 28, 1999  6:45:58 pm"

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Anthony Kimball wrote:
> Quoth John Birrell on Tue, 29 June:
> : 
> : Some of us use the 386EX as an embedded processor in low power (~2W)
> : memory based applications. Dropping support for 386 (UP) from FreeBSD
> : would fork a new *BSD! 
> 
> Just to make explicit the obvious: That's why there's a "cpu I386_CPU"
> config option; there's no reason to retain 386 compatibility if it
> isn't present.

And that is (explicitly and exclusively!) used on my 386 target systems.

The point I was trying to make, however, is that the 386 compatibility
code must continue to exist in any changes to the kernel sources.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137


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