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From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
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On 05/16/14 18:18, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 17:40 -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> I missed the original commit of this, but why doesn't this code work on
>> non-x86 systems? QEMU works perfectly fine on other architectures.
>> -Nathan
>
> I am only supporting this on x86 systems, if there is someone who is
> using this actively on ${ARCH} then I see no reason to enable it there.
>
> sean
>

But why restrict it? Tier-2 systems basically mean "no guarantees" and 
that's fine. But there doesn't seem to be any reason to make code 
platform-specific that is not inherently so.
-Nathan