Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

[tlambert2]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:47:24 -0800 Juli Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * De: Terry Lambert  [ Data: 2002-12-17 ]
   [ Subjecte: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC ]
  Apparently, one of the primary markets for
 FreeBSD is embedded
  devices.
 
 Are you implying that these people, who are
 undoubtedly adding and
 removing lots of things in the kernel, to make
 things fit, and to
 make things do their jobs, can't be bothered to
 use the appropriate
 CPU settings?

I'm implying that they *can* be bothered.

I'm also implying that they *are* bothered.

Finally, I'm saying that the less bother, the better.

-- Terry

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Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

[tlambert2]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:09:10 -0800 Juli Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I don't think anyone wants that to happen
 (though I wouldn't put it past
 some people to want to do that).

FWIW, all I've really been doing is defending the idea that some people want
the code to run on a 386, however poorly.

But for the most part, the people who would use that approach aren't bothered
by not having 386 support there by default.

BTW, for the person who pointed out that the userland is 486, and won't run on
386, anyway, without everything rebuilt: I'm pretty sure that's not true since
the compiler upgrade, since the new compiler can't do CPU optimization
correctly, without puking things out.  8-).

-- Terry

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