r343567 aka PAE vs non-PAE merge breaks i386 freebsd

[Cy Schubert]

On February 28, 2019 11:21:24 AM PST, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:14:51AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> On February 28, 2019 11:06:46 AM PST, Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org>
>wrote:
>> >On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:32 AM Steve Kargl
>> ><sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> >> This is interesting as well.  Does this mean that amd64 is now
>> >> the only tier 1 platform and all other architectures are after
>> >> thoughts?
>> >
>> >This has been the de facto truth for years.  i386 is mostly only
>> >supported by virtue of sharing code with amd64.  There are efforts
>to
>> >promote arm64 to Tier 1, but it isn't there yet.  Power8+ might be
>> >another good alternative Tier 1 candidate eventually.  None have
>> >anything like the developer popularity that amd64 enjoys.
>> >
>> 
>> We deprecated and removed support for 386 and 486 processors. We
>should consider removing support for low end Pentium as well. I'm
>specifically thinking of removing the workarounds like F00F. Are there
>any processors that are still vulnerable to this?
>> 
>
>Ahem, sys/i386/conf/GENERIC contains "cpu I486_CPU".
>Is that a typo?

I stand corrected. We should remove that.

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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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