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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:44:08 -0800
From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Geoffrey <geoffrey@reptiles.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > I doubt the usefulness of this.  i386 kernels were just accidentally
> > broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing.
> 
> People who build embedded devices that need to be supported in
> the field, and want to worry about their software, and not the
> platform it runs on, don't use -current, FWIW.

Moot point.  People who build embedded devices have separate,
usually modern, machines for building their kernels.

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