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uefi(8): Note i386 is unsupported

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We have no support for i386 booting at this time. Add that in the bugs section.

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@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ Unified Extensible Firmware Interface provides boot- and run-time services
to operating systems.
.Nm
is a replacement for the legacy BIOS on the i386 and amd64 CPU architectures,
and is also used on arm, arm64 and ia64.
and is also used on arm, arm64 and riscv architectures.
.Pp
The UEFI specification is the successor to the Extensible Firmware Interface
(EFI) specification.
The terms are often used interchangeably.
The terms UEFI and EFI are often used interchangeably.
.Pp
The
.Nm
@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ boot process proceeds as follows:
.Nm
firmware runs at power up and searches for an OS loader in the EFI system
partition.
The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment variable.
The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment variable managed by
.Xr efibootmgr 8 .
If not set, an architecture-specific default is used.
.Bl -column -offset indent "Architecture" "Default Path"
.It Sy Architecture Ta Sy Default Path
@ -131,3 +132,5 @@ for armv6 and armv7 in
.Fx 12.0 ;
and for riscv in
.Fx 13.0 .
.Sh BUGS
There is no support for 32-bit i386 booting via UEFI.