GENERIC - Raising the bar

[Bill Hacker]

*BSD's have long shipped with a GENERIC kernel conf that will work on 
386 and any newer x86.

Manual editing has been required to optimize for 486/586, K6, and 
various flavors of Pentium onward.

Over time, even embedded systems have moved to at least 486/586 levels.

Further, embedded is not only a small market for a *BSD, it is more 
likely to be QNX,
eCos, or other micro- RTOS turf - not even all that much Linux ground.

DragonFlyBSD is a modern project.

Might it not be advantageous to optimize the GENERIC build for no less 
than 'Pentium-class'?

Removing the ability to option back down-scale is not likely to have 
significant
impact, but could make certain tasks that can take advantage of chipset 
features easier to do well.

Bill