cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S

[Maxim Sobolev]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20041019073145.GA29746 at thingy.tbd.co.nz>
>             Andrew Thompson <andy at fud.org.nz> writes:
> : > I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several days.
> : 
> : Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would
> : have to do it on another box anyway.
> 
> The only people that will seriously want to use i386 these days are
> the folks that build embedded systems.  Those you have to build on
> some host then deploy to the target system.
> 
> There are some benefits to having i386 in the tree.  However, there
> are also a number of different places in the tree where things are
> sub-optimal because we still have support for i386 in there.  The
> desire to remove them is to make FreeBSD go faster on more modern
> hardware.

Can anyone give at least one valid point why somebody will want to use 
6.x on embedded i386? Such hardware is inheretedly limited, so that all 
good stuff that have been added into FreeBSD during the past few years 
(SMPng, GEOM, KSE, you-name-it) if of no use on that hardware anyway. 
IMO any reasonable embedded folks would just stick with 4.x or even 3.x 
due to their smaller footprint and better performance on old systems.

Let's just rip that old junk off!

-Maxim