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

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 20 13:20:07 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
+> For 6.0 we are (finally!) going to just drop 80386 altogether.  I've been 
+> wanting to do this personally since early SMPng days, but we came to an 
+> agreement back then and since we've already gone and branched RELENG_5 and 
+> frozen the ABI I think we should stick to the previously agreed-upon plan.

So maybe it is good time to think about 486 in 6.x.
I don't know how much can we get from dropping support for 486, but maybe
it's worth it.
Before the next war will start, the good argument for me is, that
FreeBSD 5.x is still going to work on 486 and we should move on.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
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