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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 2.1.1 support Cyrix 6x86??Etc... Date: 23 Jun 1996 13:28:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4qjgpi$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dt5v2D.A6I@news2.new-york.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > Just what is the pre-release status of 2.1.1 at the moment? > Another posting indicated that a 6x86 option was only added to the Hmm, i seem to remember that the 6x86 works fine, but is detected as a 486. (So if you accidentally removed the I486_CPU, it won't work for you.) > latest SNAP of 2.2,and as 2.1.1 will be out first,yet has no SNAPs > in circulation,I am wondering what will be covered and what will > not? Btw., the naming has been settled to be 2.1.5 (and it will be the last in the 2.1.X line). It won't offer much new features -- that wasn't the goal. The intent was to provide a bugfix update over 2.1, with all potentially dangerous changes left out. A few new drivers went in nevertheless, as long as they were not assumed to affect the stability of the rest of the kernel. Some other portions of the system have been kept up to -current level of development (like the APM stuff), since the existing version in 2.1 was basically unusable, so any usable version must be considered better than the previous state. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)