Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:55:05 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, akruijff@dds.nl, DavidJohnson@Siemens.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <3DFC0B29.FD6F7F18@mindspring.com> References: <635948263.20021214220720@dds.nl> <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021214.173219.116676673.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > One problem with most 386 boxes is that they have very little memory. > sysinstall is a big, bloated pig dog these days that takes more RAM > than most 386 boxes have. This is true also for many 486 boxes too. > So even if 386 stuff were in the default kernel, you'd likely have > other issues in making sysinstall work and have to do custom > hacking... Add to this that Bosko's workaround for the CPU bug with PSE/PGE includes loading the kernel at 4M rather than 1M. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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