x86 boot code build

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Bob Bishop wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 5 Oct 2012, at 21:23, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 
>> With Atom processors you're pretty much stuck with i386, in part because amd64 emulation mode still sucks a lot.
> 
> Can't agree with that in general, we've had no problems with the D525 running amd64 (mainly for the benefit of ZFS). It probably depends exactly which Atom you are looking at - they differ quite a bit.

	Ok. The generation I'm running at least (D4xx) seemed to have issues with amd64 emulation (slow). Also, some/many PCHs/boards don't support over 4GB with Atom, which is a bit discouraging if you're trying to go 64-bit.
Thanks,
-Garrett