From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Oct  5 16:27:43 2012
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05DB106564A;
	Fri,  5 Oct 2012 16:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com)
Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com
	[209.85.160.54])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660348FC12;
	Fri,  5 Oct 2012 16:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id rp8so2308926pbb.13
	for <multiple recipients>; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
	h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date
	:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding;
	bh=ux20aodRK6BFxJXthKsgesB7yF/xkACq/pntfgQGhDQ=;
	b=HcTBfh1JqhdSSMaGaD5/AIzAiZxe1Ebd1H7zQQnqe6qCxH/wcC0456n2Nh8LyvYv5k
	9DD67vvtpe2qsVvHYzM5erjKjjXa9Np30u3CX26SP4SzLDvR5/66mVK8KCMGw0T+vBQD
	VF6grP8JEWlwg+GGL1K/b8YKTATJb0dYy8Lvpc7itSWbRnhoMeJsW/b/n9LJXaiLHezi
	SxlmELZopq06JTMtCqqMARMF00c0ZiWXkAnzkQFwvJCiFUGjOkFc+m5DgQ4uqvGFxFtR
	P+8y4eCrymBMDZi0qmX9B/DBkDo/kLkZsXSwiAS1ULOW27aPyqeBoEPU576zjp6eT5yO
	Z3jw==
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.68.242.164 with SMTP id wr4mr32311699pbc.41.1349454462832;
	Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com
Received: by 10.68.223.136 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20121005155441.GL69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
References: <506C385C.3020400@FreeBSD.org> <506DEB4C.5020508@andric.com>
	<86haq9hq2c.fsf@ds4.des.no>
	<20121005033244.GL35915@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
	<86y5jll7kc.fsf@ds4.des.no>
	<CAGH67wQqs9DJoy0LSgKi1_wMFyrHUE69Dgc2dht7q8VXDVAeQQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<86txu9l4z9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
	<20121005155441.GL69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:27:42 -0700
X-Google-Sender-Auth: XlkNwO859FKircH6AcpCRBdkVMM
Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=We1FMcPoPbSC=Brfmk0LhiQZNp=wvNtgWWceJU=j_QA@mail.gmail.com>
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, 
	Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>,
	Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, 
	Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>,
	freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: 
Subject: Re: x86 boot code build
X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture <freebsd-arch.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch>,
	<mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch>,
	<mailto:freebsd-arch-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:27:43 -0000

On 5 October 2012 08:54, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein <uqs@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Seriously? How about we leave i386 as is for the embedded folks and just
> move forward with amd64. Any improvements made on our i386 support are
> useless to about 98% of our users. It's 2012 people ...

You can pry i386 from my cold, dead hands. Especially if intel tablets
and such appear.

I still install i386 on most of my laptop/netbook devices because they
don't come with more than 2GB of RAM.

Embedded, indeed..


Adrian