x86 boot code build

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 5 05:15:18 UTC 2012


on 04/10/2012 23:02 Dimitry Andric said the following:
> Well, do we still officially support any real i386 machines?  If so, we
> should still use -march=i386 for the boot code.  Otherwise, let's start
> using -march=i486 explicitly.

As I mentioned earlier, the only difference for boot code is use of 'leave'
instruction.  I don't think -march=i486 buys us much, if anything, except for
"coolness factor" (i486 is "cooler" than i386).  On the other hand it makes
binaries larger.  So...

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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