On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 11:38:56PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Hi, David > > I really like to see this happen, as it means we are going to support > modern hardware better, without completely set a barrier for supporting > older hardware. > > By committing this, would you please add something into src/UPDATING > like: > > 200410XX: > Certain part in libc's i386 assembly source code has been changed > in favor of using instructions available only on newer processors > for performance considerations. In order to get libc run on > 80386 processors, you will have to define I386_CPU. We've already so desupported running 6-CURRENT on the original i386 processor, I'd rather not create the appearance that it is still supported and easy to do by simply defining one thing. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Sun Oct 17 2004 - 16:27:23 UTC
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