i386 do not support i386
Frank J. Laszlo
laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Wed Nov 23 16:28:39 PST 2005
Christer Hermansson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release
> notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the
> x86 platform.
>
>
Do you realize how many things depend on the platform name being i386?
Just thinking of ports alone, I cound probably name a "few." Not very
important, but a huge hastle to switch over.
-Frank
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