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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
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cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory


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