how about to have in a distribution two version of GENERIC kernel
(and modules of course) and let sysinstall choose right set ?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at 9:28:43 -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
>>> Wont this make installing using sysinstall a bit hard? I know the generic
>>> kernel includes all the CPU lines, so that all cpu's are recognized... so
>>> are you going to just take this line out of the generic kernel, and have a
>>> special kern.flp disk with a generic kernel that only has the i386 support
>>> in it?
>>
>> I don't think it's worth the effort. By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out,
>> the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has
>> already reached that point and gone beyond). There are not likely to be
>> many more installs of FreeBSD on 386's, let alone 5.x installs.
>>
>> People who *really* want to install 5.x on a 386 can generate their own
>> kernel and such.
> Don't forget that the i386 is still a popular CPU for embedded work.
> Of course, embedded people will have less of an issue with sysinstall.
> Greg
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