New CPUTYPE default for i386 port

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 6:27 AM Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 06.10.2019 6:54, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > There are two issues here. First, the pentiums under ~200mhz don't
> support
> > booting off of CDROM. Second, most of the Pentium chipsets couldn't use
> > more than 64MB, so often that was the max you could get. Pentium Pro in
> > that era did more memory, but it was the first i686. Pentium II were a
> > different story as well. Both often were provisioned with 128MB or more.
>  There are embedded devices, like AMD Geode, which could be loaded with
> enough memory, but is not fully i686.
>
>  Soekris Net5501, anyone
>

Yes. There are a few exceptions to the rule of thumb I gave. And for the
old embedded gear that people still have knocking around, the won't be able
to use released images but will need to roll your own. The support isn't
being removed, just the default target is being upped.

Can we still boot the release images on these boxes anyway? When I built my
Solaris box, I used nanobsd...

Warner


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