Subj : FreeBSD 4.3-RC buffer issue
To   : Tobias Ernst
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sat Apr 14 2001 10:24 am

Tobias wrote to Lawrence at 22:36 14 Apr:

 TE> Hallo Lawrence!

 LG> www.freebsd.org indicates the system will run on a Pentium(tm) 
 LG> with 5MB RAM.

 TE> Did they drop 386 support in the generic kernel? 

Not to my knowledge.. but I couldn't find anything that specifically commented 
on the i486 or below, so I refrained from suggesting as such. In fact, the i486 
and i386 sections on the FAQ page I was looking at were totally devoid of any 
comments at all.

 TE> FreeBSD for sure works on a non-Pentium machine,

version 4.x?

 TE> but if they say Pentium on the homepage, maybe one needs a custom 
 TE> kernel for that. 

Not that they specifically said "Pentium", only that there was a distinct 
absence of commentary on the sub-Pentium processors.

 TE> Though I can hardly believe this.

Since it is a relatively recent release of an open-source product, I'd be 
hesistant to recommend it will work on a sub-Pentium processor unless somebody 
has either:

   (a) specifically experienced success, or

   (b) is willing to recompile the sources to ensure they are not Pentium 
optimized -- cuz I suspect the shipping binaries are optimized.

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