[PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Xin LI wrote:

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> On 2010/03/19 13:15, Daniel Eischen wrote:
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>> Well, we have nanobsd, but having a suitable install tool
>> for small flash-based systems where you want a nanobsd-like
>> setup (readonly filesystems) would be very nice.  I try
>> to write procedures for our embedded systems so others
>> (neophytes) can create and burn them, but it might be
>> easier for someone to get started with embedded systems
>> if they could do it from a release using an install tool.
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> Some computation intense tasks would benefit from enabling certain
> optimizations which is not suitable for older processors.
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> However, just like John said servers tends to use 64-bit platform more
> than 32-bit ones, so perhaps we can just dismiss the idea of enabling
> these optimizations on FreeBSD/i386 platform and focus on FreeBSD/amd64...

Perhaps I was wrong, but I thought Scott's question was more
general: is there a desire for a special installation suitable
to small appliances (usually flash-based)?

Sorry, I didn't mean to steal the thread.

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DE