cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S

[Max Khon]

Hi!

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:11:02AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> > I think you people need to decide to either drop support for 80386
> > completely (in which case all the '#ifdef I386_CPU' and similar can go
> > away) or decide to keep support for it, in which case most things
> > should just work 'out of the box' on a 80386 (without recompilation
> > needed more than absolutely necessary.)
> 
> I don't really see your point; what's wrong with having support for i386,
> just being hidden behind the need to tweak some things (i.e. to recompile
> a custom kernel)?  Methinks that we can expect certain level of competence
> of someone who is willing to install FreeBSD-5 on i386, definitely being
> able to rebuild a kernel (which is actually pretty easy to do compared to
> Linux, for me at least).  There's also an option of putting GENERIC-386
> next to GENERIC config file in /sys/i386/conf.

I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several days.

/fjoe