Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304141046270.94222-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030414103701.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John, did you get eh messages of "ok" from both re. and the security officer to put this in RELENG_4_8 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. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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