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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:23:10 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x86 boot code build
Message-ID:  <CC791916-54DB-458D-B367-3FD28F7300C3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=We1FMcPoPbSC=Brfmk0LhiQZNp=wvNtgWWceJU=j_QA@mail.gmail.com>
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> <CAJ-Vmo=We1FMcPoPbSC=Brfmk0LhiQZNp=wvNtgWWceJU=j_QA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 5 October 2012 08:54, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein <uqs@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>> 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 ...
>=20
> You can pry i386 from my cold, dead hands. Especially if intel tablets
> and such appear.
>=20
> I still install i386 on most of my laptop/netbook devices because they
> don't come with more than 2GB of RAM.
>=20
> Embedded, indeed..

	+1 for my netbook (2GB RAM) and router/gateway/firewall (4GB =
RAM). With Atom processors you're pretty much stuck with i386, in part =
because amd64 emulation mode still sucks a lot.
Thanks,
-Garrett=



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