[PATCH] optimizing X now that we don't support i386 CPU's on 6-CURRENT

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:38:56PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, David
> 
> I really like to see this happen, as it means we are going to support
> modern hardware better, without completely set a barrier for supporting
> older hardware.
> 
> By committing this, would you please add something into src/UPDATING
> like:
> 
> 200410XX:
> 	Certain part in libc's i386 assembly source code has been changed
> 	in favor of using instructions available only on newer processors
> 	for performance considerations.  In order to get libc run on
> 	80386 processors, you will have to define I386_CPU.

We've already so desupported running 6-CURRENT on the original i386
processor, I'd rather not create the appearance that it is still
supported and easy to do by simply defining one thing.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)