x86 boot code build

[Garrett Cooper]

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

> On 5 October 2012 08:54, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at 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..

	+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