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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