On 15-Dec-2002 Nate Lawson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> The only remotely good reason I have heard for removing support for 386 >> in the default configuration is that having it in would pessimize >> performance too much for more modern CPUs. How valid that reason is I >> cannot judge, but I guess it is possible. > > Could someone enlighten me as to why we don't leave 386 support in for the > boot kernel so the floppies will at least boot? Note that performance > shouldn't be an issue when installing.
After you reboot after you install the kernel you just installed won't boot. Pretty pointless. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
