Subject: Re: Removing I386_CPU from GENERIC and INSTALL
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com, port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/29/2006 11:25:32 
On Mar 21,  8:39am, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
}
} The I386_CPU option makes kernels considerably larger, and the VM system
} and the network stack slower.  I seriously doubt that it's possible to
} boot a GENERIC (and probably not even an INSTALL) kernel on any system
} without an i486-compatible MMU anyway.

     What does an i386-compatible MMU provide that the i386 MMU
didn't?

}-- End of excerpt from Thor Lancelot Simon