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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
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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
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