[Bug 230888] Missing 64 bit atomic functions for i386 (libatomic)

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--- Comment #13 from Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> ---
The project is somewhat schizophrenic about i386.  On the one hand there are
calls for tier 3 status or even removal.  On the other hand we *must* support
ancient i486 at the cost of usability on slightly less ancient ia32 hardware.

+100, let's drop i486 support and go straight to i686 at a minimum.

I ran a 2.6 Linux on a real i586 with 128 MB of RAM over 10 years ago *and it
was dog slow then*.  To run the package manager required disk swap.  People
with real museum class ia32 that want to run a recently released BSD slowly can
use NetBSD or OpenBSD (lock contention shouldn't be an issue).

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