svn commit: r219679 - head/sys/i386/include

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Mar 16 20:44:28 UTC 2011


On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:03:46 +0100
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

> There are probably only a handful of people (if that) who actually run
> FreeBSD on an actual 486-class machine, but requiring SSE2 would mean
> dropping support for Pentium-III and Athlon-XP equipped machines and
> I believe there are a large number of such machines still in use, and
> they are still perfectly suitable for a large number of tasks.

Some low power x86 CPUs don't have SSE2 either.

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Bruce Cran


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