Sync with raid(4) regarding the architectures that support booting directly

from RAID 1, using language supplied by Anders Dinson in PR bin/29158, with
some additions by myself.
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.\" $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.44 2004/05/24 00:08:04 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.45 2005/01/31 16:42:15 fredb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the
.\" rights to redistribute these changes.
.\"
.Dd May 24, 2004
.Dd Jan 31, 2005
.Dt RAIDCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ the use of the boot disk as the root device.
All components of the set must be of type
.Dv RAID
in the disklabel.
Note that only alpha, i386, and pmax support booting a kernel directly from
a RAID set.
Note that only certain architectures
.Pq currently alpha, i386, pmax, sparc, and sparc64
support booting a kernel directly from a RAID set.
.It Fl B Ar dev
Initiate a copyback of reconstructed data from a spare disk to
its original disk.
@ -1210,7 +1211,8 @@ To return raid0a to be just an auto-configuring set simply use the
arguments.
.Pp
Note that kernels can only be directly read from RAID 1 components on
alpha, i386, and pmax architectures.
architectures that support that
.Pq currently alpha, i386, pmax, sparc, and sparc64 .
On those architectures, the
.Dv FS_RAID
file system is recognized by the bootblocks, and will properly load the