Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ?

[John Baldwin]

On 14-Apr-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> John, did you get eh messages of "ok" from both re. and the security
> officer to put this in RELENG_4_8

jhb         2003/04/14 07:36:19 PDT

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4_8)
    sys/i386/i386        identcpu.c 
  Log:
  MFS: Fix booting on 80386 machines.  CD vendor's may want to re-roll their
  own release to include this fix.
  
  Approved by:    re (murray)
  
  Revision       Changes    Path
  1.80.2.14.2.1  +1 -1      src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c
 
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> > Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> >> My patch will not break anything.
>> >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch.
>> >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why
>> >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work.
>> > 
>> > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X.     
>> > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? )   
>> 
>> 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons.  In 5.x, you
>> have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support.  5.x does not support
>> 80386 machines out of the box.  Installing a 5.x release on a 80386
>> is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine.
>> You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp.
>> 
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