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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:51:36 +0200
From:      Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot find announcement that min supported i386 CPU is now i686
Message-ID:  <20200831205136.GA15141@elch.exwg.net>
In-Reply-To: <4460db23-9a29-7972-1b41-74585764a5d7@lists.invis.net>
References:  <4460db23-9a29-7972-1b41-74585764a5d7@lists.invis.net>

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## Charles Lecklider via freebsd-stable (freebsd-stable@freebsd.org):

> As you can see from objdump below, clearly a decision was made that 11.4
> would no longer support anything before a i686.

Given that the hardware notes
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/hardware.html#proc-i386
explicitely claim 80486 compatibility, I'd guess this was not a
consciuous decision but a blunder which wasn't caught (perhaps as
hardware of that vintage is getting rare these days. That box
must be old enough to buy alcohol by now?).

Regards,
Christoph

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