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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:25:13 +0100
From:      Charles Lecklider <freebsd-stable@lists.invis.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot find announcement that min supported i386 CPU is now i686
Message-ID:  <5fd051bf-04e6-7773-ffa4-23c16f81cd72@lists.invis.net>
In-Reply-To: <1d996708-3c3f-b5ea-a9f7-a4b0e9e7c377@grosbein.net>
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On 2020-08-31 22:59, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html section 11.1 discusses the topic
> in context of upcoming FreeBSD 13.

And that makes sense - 12.x EOL is a few years out.

> There was some discussion on the topic in the freebsd-arch mailing list about a year ago:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=75083+0+archive/2019/freebsd-arch/20191006.freebsd-arch

Yes, and there was a commitment to an announcement in that thread too.

> It seems there was no announcement on the change for 11.x branch.

No, and that's the problem: had I know I'd have just compiled it up, but
I didn't and now I need to rebuild it....

> I wonder how much RAM does your Pentium 233 MMX have and what part of the RAM is cacheable by the chipset? :-)

512MB ECC, and all of it, at least according to the BIOS.

-C



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