Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:34:53 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030228103453.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p05200f2cba8473a40520@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 28-Feb-2003 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:55 PM -0800 2/27/03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> > >... JMB wrote: >> > > I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just >> > > accidentally broken for almost a month and a half without >> > > anyone noticing. >> > >>> Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release >>> process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel? >> >>It's never good to add to your release cycle something you don't >>build/validate during development. Releases are painful enough >>that you don't want to turn them into testbeds. If it's not >>worth testing during development, it's not worth releasing... > > Okay, that also makes good sense. But if that is true, then maybe > we should officially tell our users that they *must* stay with the > 4.x-series if they are running 386 hardware. I do think that the > project has plenty of work with 5.x-series, particularly as we > try to add sparc64, ppc, and maybe more hardware platforms. > > We do have a lot to test already, and there is no sense pretending > to support i386 when we don't have the resources or the inclination > to really test it. I think we're hitting that grey area where we > do not really support i386, but for pride's sake we don't quite > want to admit that 5.x will not support it. I personally think that we should not support the 80386 in 5.x. However when that has been brought up before there were a lot of theoretical objections. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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