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

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:43 am, you wrote:
> In message: <20041019073145.GA29746 at thingy.tbd.co.nz>
>
>             Andrew Thompson <andy at fud.org.nz> writes:
> : > I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several
> : > days.
> :
> : Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would
> : have to do it on another box anyway.
>
> The only people that will seriously want to use i386 these days are
> the folks that build embedded systems.  Those you have to build on
> some host then deploy to the target system.
>
> There are some benefits to having i386 in the tree.  However, there
> are also a number of different places in the tree where things are
> sub-optimal because we still have support for i386 in there.  The
> desire to remove them is to make FreeBSD go faster on more modern
> hardware.

I think 6.0 is the place to drop 80386, not 5.x.  I'm already working on a p4 
branch (jhb_no386) to remove 80396 support from HEAD, but I think 5.x should 
be left as is in this regard.

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