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Re: GENERIC - Raising the bar


From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:40:13 -0500

At 3:57 AM +0800 3/12/05, Bill Hacker wrote:
*BSD's have long shipped with a GENERIC kernel conf that will
work on 386 and any newer x86.

Manual editing has been required to optimize for 486/586, K6,
and various flavors of Pentium onward.

Note that FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x do not include the 386 code in the default GENERIC kernel. The installer CD might be compiled with "cpu I386_CPU" included, but the GENERIC kernel does not...

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