cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:17:15PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> I did remember clearly that support *had* been axed. I just checked
> to see *when* it was axed (and to make sure people believed me when I
> said so. :-) )

Oh, we believe anyone.

> > > (While talking about supported hardware it might also be noted that to
> > > run 5.x on a real 80386 (+80387 FPU) you need to recompile word+kernel
> > > with 386 support (see the 2005027 and 20010116 entries in UPDATING),
> > > and for 6-CURRENT all support for a real 80386 (with or without FPU)
> > > has been axed completely (20041116 entry in UPDATING))
> > 
> > I'll see if I can put that in.
> > 
> > On the other hand: is that a FAQ?  Isn't that in the hardware notes?
> 
> These days it is probably not much of an FAQ; few people seem to try to
> install FreeBSD on anything older than a Pentium these days.
> 
> As for the hardware notes, that information ought to be there, but does
> not seem to be.
> 
> (The hardware notes for 6-CURRENT seems to be correct, while those for
> 5-STABLE needs to be updated.  The hardware notes for both 4.x and 5.x
> also has bogus warnings about the 80386sx which should be removed. (Bogus
> since from the OS's point of view there is no difference whatsoever
> between the 80386sx and a full-blowb 80386dx.)

That's under /usr/src, which rules me out.  Could you open a PR about
this, so it doesn't get lost?  Thanks much!

==ml

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