svn commit: r205307 - head/sys/i386/conf

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Mar 19 17:14:35 UTC 2010


In message: <20100319114426.GO32142 at hoeg.nl>
            Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> writes:
: * Xin LI <delphij at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
: > Log:
: >   SSE is enabled by default about 5 years ago so there is no point pretending
: >   that we support I486 and I586 CPUs in the GENERIC kernel, users wants these
: >   support would have to build a custom kernel to explicitly disable SSE
: >   anyways.
: >   
: >   MFC after:	1 month
: 
: Could we please leave i586 here? I agree people should throw their
: Pentiums on the scrapyard, but only supporting i686 by default is a bit
: too agressive in my opinion.

I don't think we should MFC this change at all.  Geodes are still
fairly popular machines and have 486 cores in them.

Warner


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