Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:20:04 +0100 From: Alexander Langer <alex@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20010114222004.C1340@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <20010114221145.A1340@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@freebsd.org on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:11:45PM %2B0100 References: <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za> <30911.979499109@critter> <20010114221145.A1340@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@freebsd.org): > On the other hand, if we only remove it from GENERIC, we could provide > a trimmed down i386 kernel, which doesn't include support for PCI and > PCCARD devices. This kernel should work on small machines with better > speed and less memory usage. I hate to follow up myself, but: I obviously missed Peter Wemm's email, where he already gave the reasons against this. Well, in this case - though I have emotional problems with this of course - I second the removal of all 386 specific code. Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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