Re: Do we need this junk?

From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:57:56 -0700
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au> wrote:
>> [-stable removed since it's not relevant there]
>>
>> On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton
>> <nikolas.britton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
>> >
>> >legacyfree1# cd dev/
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include
>> ...
>>
>> Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed?
>>
> 
> I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support:
> 1. ISA / EISA
> 2. PC98 Platform.
> 3. i486
> 4. i586
> 
> 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786
> (SSE2) processor.
> 
> Arch Break Down
> i386             5586     94.02%
> amd64             305       5.13%
> sparc64           30       0.50%
> 
> x86 Break Down:
> i486    30           0.074%
> ???     51           0.125%
> i586    404         0.995%
> i686    14724     36.230%
> i786    25431     62.576%
> -----------------------------------
> Tot:    40640    100%
> 
> data provided by bsdstats.org

Bad idea. A lot of routers using pfsense are running a modified version
of FreeBSD 6.2, and are typically running Soekris hardware, which is
i586 branded hardware.

-Garrett
Received on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 23:58:18 UTC

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