Re: GENERIC - Raising the bar

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Nida wrote:

> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
>
> Just curious, here.
>
> What would be the harm in having GENERIC.386, GENERIC.486, etc. and then 
> programmatically setting up GENERIC as a symlink to the one closest 
> matching the hardware?
>
> Adrian
>
> P.S.  Garance, sorry for the duplication, I just switched to Thunder 
> Bird, and am still adjusting.

(My) goal is to simply drop the work entailed to try to preserve 
compatibility
*at any point* with aging, and increasingly very rare, hardware.

The world has long-since moved on, and the *N*X'es in general
are carrying far too much legacy baggage - CPU's perhaps not even the
worst example....

Cleaning house - as has been going on with code safety and style -
can have a benefical 'ripple' effect...

Otherwise, we are like the government employee told to destroy obsolete 
files.
Who made a Xerox of each page as he went ...just in case....   ;-)

BIll