On 19 March 2010 17:22, Valentin Nechayev <ne...@netch.kiev.ua> wrote: > Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 17:13:00, ivoras wrote about "Re: I486_CPU and I586_CPU > removed from GENERIC kernel [was Re: svn commit: r205307 - > head/sys/i386/conf]": > >> SSE in the userland you mean? Regardless, I don't think there is now >> reason for compiling everything as for i386. E.g. why not add at least >> -mtune=generic or even also -march=i686 to default gcc options? >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html > > Having userland compiled with i686 will give the same effect as i686-only > kernel: it won't boot on machines which doesn't conform to. If it is > supposed to boot on i486 and higher, no more than -march=i486 can be used.
Yes, this is how I read the change - the move from "i386" to "i686". I apologize if I got it wrong :) As it was pointed out earlier - small systems users and designers probably have special install procedures because of the nature of the business. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
