svn commit: r205307 - head/sys/i386/conf

[Xin LI]

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On 2010/03/19 10:08, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20100319114426.GO32142 at hoeg.nl>
>             Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> writes:
> : * Xin LI <delphij at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> : > Log:
> : >   SSE is enabled by default about 5 years ago so there is no point pretending
> : >   that we support I486 and I586 CPUs in the GENERIC kernel, users wants these
> : >   support would have to build a custom kernel to explicitly disable SSE
> : >   anyways.
> : >   
> : >   MFC after:	1 month
> : 
> : Could we please leave i586 here? I agree people should throw their
> : Pentiums on the scrapyard, but only supporting i686 by default is a bit
> : too agressive in my opinion.
> 
> I don't think we should MFC this change at all.  Geodes are still
> fairly popular machines and have 486 cores in them.

Yes you are right.  I overlooked the effect of CPU_ENABLE_SSE which is
to add the support for SSE not to enforce using it...  This revision has
been backed out anyways.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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