Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:27:42 -0700
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
Subject:   Re: x86 boot code build
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=We1FMcPoPbSC=Brfmk0LhiQZNp=wvNtgWWceJU=j_QA@mail.gmail.com>
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAJ-Vmo=We1FMcPoPbSC=Brfmk0LhiQZNp=wvNtgWWceJU=j_QA>