genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

[Julian H. Stacey]

Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >> My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously).  A true 386 is going to  
> >> be quite
> >> slow and the overhead of many things added that work well on newer  
> >> processors
> >> is going to be very painful on a 386 (probably on a 486 as well).   
> >> 4.x runs
> >> fine on a 386 and should support all the hardware you can stick  
> >> into a
> >> machine with an 80386 CPU.
> >
> > Unless, of course, you plan to put it on a network.  I doubt that  
> > 4.x is up to date with respect to security patches.
> 
> I don't know if they were all applied on 4.x, but I think at least the  
> older ones are.

4.11 fell out of security support some while back, but
	http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html 
only lists what's still in, not what fell out when.

Free/ Net/ Open/ Dragon etc all derive from Bill Jollitz port of
BSD to 386.  Would be nice if we could still keep that first platform
walking, even if speed can't be called running ;-)

Maybe I'll get time to chase down all that came before
	http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=137784

Cheers,
Julian
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