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.
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. 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? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
