[rfc] Add boot-time warning messages to PAE kernels

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 21:54 -0400, Terry Kennedy wrote:
> > I'm not sure where you got the idea that i386 hardware is long out of
> > production.  google "industrial single-board computer" some time for an
> > alternate take on what's producing and shipping and still in control of
> > a non-trivial slice of our daily lives.  When we ship i386-based
> > products at $work it's using brand new hardware.
> 
>   I was speaking of the general x86 desktop / workstation / server market.
> I had assumed that embedded use of FreeBSD required rather extensive cus-
> tiomization to fit it in the desired memory space.

Yeah, if by "extensive customization" you mean a custom kernel config, a
makefile that sets a good number of the available WITH and WITHOUT build
controls, and an install script that prunes away some of the userland
binaries that are big and not needed on a product.

The reason I replied in the first place is that everybody speaks of "the
general x86 desktop / workstation / server market" as if that covers
everything.  Embedded folks use FreeBSD too, pretty much out of the box
using the existing controls it provides.  Sometimes it's a struggle to
keep that a viable option, because there are certainly more users in the
categories you mentioned.

-- Ian