Having just trashed my dual Pentium 233 MMX by installing 11.4 I went
digging to find the cause - and I found it.
As you can see from objdump below, clearly a decision was made that 11.4
would no longer support anything before a i686.
Ignoring for a moment the wisdom of making breaking changes to
On 2020-08-31 21:54, Warner Losh wrote:
> The default is to compile for i686.
That does seem to be the case for 11.4, but that wasn't the case for
11.3, and I cannot find an announcement for that change anywhere.
Had I seen one ...
> However, you can still roll your own if you need anything back
On 2020-08-31 22:59, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html section 11.1 discusses
> the topic
> in context of upcoming FreeBSD 13.
And that makes sense - 12.x EOL is a few years out.
> There was some discussion on the topic in the freebsd-arch mailing list
On 2020-08-31 21:51, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> Given that the hardware notes
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/hardware.html#proc-i386
> explicitely claim 80486 compatibility, I'd guess this was not a
> consciuous decision but a blunder which wasn't caught
Hmm I'd assumed that e
On 2020-09-01 03:20, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (499.91-MHz 586-class CPU)
> Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x5a2 Family=0x5 Model=0xa Stepping=2
> Features=0x88a93d
> AMD Features=0xc040
>
> Of course, its NanoBSD image is built with CPUTYPE=i5
On 2020-09-14 04:41, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Build time for modern FreeBSD version is too gross and needs way too much
> memory,
> so I stopped building image for my i586 hardware "in place" quite long ago.
It would take about a week to compile, but since it was stable <11.4 I
didn't really care
