31 Aug
2011
31 Aug
'11
3:28 p.m.
On 08/31/2011 02:35 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:37:43 -0400
Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
No.
But I remember it has been bikesheded^Wdiscussed. IIRC there was
some old 386 cruft that handicaped some improvements for XEN. Or the
like. So it was considered to sacrifice 386 support for new things.
We should look into this. NetBSD, like Linux, is used in lots of
embedded applications. In particular it use is common in digital
cameras. Most of them have surely gone ARM by now (like everything
else) but the 80386EX was very common in that world; I can't imagine
they've disappeared overnight.
And besides, those types of issues would easily have been solved by
conditional compilation via kernel config file options, which is (as I'm
sure you know) generally how the NetBSD crowd addresses such problems.
Not everyone runs Xen.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I think
even NetBSD has dumped 386 support.
NetBSD has? Are you certain?