Cannot find announcement that min supported i386 CPU is now i686

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:51 PM Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt at burggraben.net>
wrote:

> ## Charles Lecklider via freebsd-stable (freebsd-stable at freebsd.org):
>
> > As you can see from objdump below, clearly a decision was made that 11.4
> > would no longer support anything before a i686.
>
> Given that the hardware notes
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/hardware.html#proc-i386
> explicitely claim 80486 compatibility, I'd guess this was not a
> consciuous decision but a blunder which wasn't caught (perhaps as
> hardware of that vintage is getting rare these days. That box
> must be old enough to buy alcohol by now?).
>

The default is to compile for i686.

However, you can still roll your own if you need anything back to i486.

Warner