On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:05:40AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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? > Having only alternative i386 kernel is not enough while userland stuff is still compiled for i486.
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