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

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:50:07PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:43 am, you wrote:
> > > In message: <20041019073145.GA29746 at thingy.tbd.co.nz>
> > >
> > >             Andrew Thompson <andy at fud.org.nz> writes:
> > > : > I am afraid that recompiling a kernel on i386 will require several
> > > : > days.
> > > :
> > > : Chicken and the egg. To support i386 it must be recompiled, so you would
> > > : have to do it on another box anyway.
> > >
> > > The only people that will seriously want to use i386 these days are
> > > the folks that build embedded systems.  Those you have to build on
> > > some host then deploy to the target system.
> 
> Yes, and very few of those folks are likely to want a relatively
> large, non-realtime, monolithic, multi-threaded OS kernel, much
> less a userland that even vaguely resembles a standard FreeBSD
> installation.
> 
> Every time this issue comes up, someone points out that in fact,
> FreeBSD still runs on the 80386 that they just threw out.
> However, nobody ever presents an important reason for *wanting* to
> run FreeBSD on an 80386.

The only reason I am not running FreeBSD on an 80386 is that the PSU in
my 80386sx based computer gave up a few months ago (or at least
something power-related did.) Until then I was happily running
4.10-stable on it and using it as a firewall/gateway.

If it was still working and support for FPU-less systems hadn't been
dropped I would have upgraded it to 5-STABLE eventually (along with my
main machine.) 
Why would I want to use such an old machine? Easy - because I had it
and couldn't (and still can't) afford to buy a modern machine.
I am sure I am not the only one in that position.

> Nice.  \me can't wait for the day when developers are no longer
> required to spend time and effort to support anything older than a PPro.

That day will hopefully be far in the future. Personally I don't have
anything as modern as a PPro.


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Erik Trulsson
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