Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:14:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030414151456.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304141046270.94222-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 14-Apr-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> John, did you get eh messages of "ok" from both re. and the security
> officer to put this in RELENG_4_8
jhb 2003/04/14 07:36:19 PDT
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4_8)
sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c
Log:
MFS: Fix booting on 80386 machines. CD vendor's may want to re-roll their
own release to include this fix.
Approved by: re (murray)
Revision Changes Path
1.80.2.14.2.1 +1 -1 src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> > Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> >> My patch will not break anything.
>> >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch.
>> >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why
>> >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work.
>> >
>> > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X.
>> > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? )
>>
>> 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons. In 5.x, you
>> have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support. 5.x does not support
>> 80386 machines out of the box. Installing a 5.x release on a 80386
>> is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine.
>> You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp.
>>
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