Do we need this junk?
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Apr 6 01:58:18 UTC 2007
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>> [-stable removed since it's not relevant there]
>>
>> On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton
>> <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
>> >
>> >legacyfree1# cd dev/
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>>
>> Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed?
>>
>
> I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support:
> 1. ISA / EISA
> 2. PC98 Platform.
> 3. i486
> 4. i586
>
> 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786
> (SSE2) processor.
>
> Arch Break Down
> i386 5586 94.02%
> amd64 305 5.13%
> sparc64 30 0.50%
>
> x86 Break Down:
> i486 30 0.074%
> ??? 51 0.125%
> i586 404 0.995%
> i686 14724 36.230%
> i786 25431 62.576%
> -----------------------------------
> Tot: 40640 100%
>
> data provided by bsdstats.org
Bad idea. A lot of routers using pfsense are running a modified version
of FreeBSD 6.2, and are typically running Soekris hardware, which is
i586 branded hardware.
-Garrett
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