On 15-Dec-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > Alex wrote: >> It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a >> 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to >> get that version to the 386. > > Yes, this is true. Several of us were annoyed by the change, > which appeared at the time to have been done solely to handle > the fact that the newly installed device /dev/random sucked > too much CPU time to work on a 386. > > The /dev/random code has since improved to not suck so much > CPU time, but the 386 code was not reenabled. > > The best answer out there is "the majority has spoken", with > the idea being that if you are deploying on 386 hardware, you > are an embedded systems vendor, and are willing to live with > the process effectively being a cross-compilation.
This has nothing to do with /dev/random. Please stop with the constant FUDing Terry. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
