Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:42:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <20021217074235.GA95679@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <9710634521.20021214232526@dds.nl> <3DFC0AB1.D60AAF66@mindspring.com> <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:05:40AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 20:53:05 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Alex wrote: > >> It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a > >> 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to > >> get that version to the 386. > > > > Yes, this is true. Several of us were annoyed by the change, > > which appeared at the time to have been done solely to handle > > the fact that the newly installed device /dev/random sucked > > too much CPU time to work on a 386. >=20 > That's an interesting apparition. In fact, it was done because the > locking primitives for i386 are so different from those for later > machines that they would significantly slow down all i[>3]86 kernels. > Since that's the vast majority, it doesn't make sense. >=20 > I suppose it would be a good idea to include an alternatvie i386 > kernel on the CD-ROM. There may be a space issue, of course. How > many people participating in this thread have an i386 with at least 12 > MB of memory and intended to try 5.0 on it? How many of those don't > have a machine to bootstrap off? >=20 Having only alternative i386 kernel is not enough while userland stuff is still compiled for i486. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9/tVrUkv4P6juNwoRAl9dAKCIGlFooxhP6bEHYmuNyICUa6Jx7gCeLtq1 PA8LBexTWxAOglBMGlVjRks= =lfaA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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