Comment 3 for bug 1273382

"We believe that MAAS will be able to identify all hardware types properly by the time we have finished the next round of hardware enablement infrastructure so it would make this moot."

I'm willing to make a considerable wager that you're wrong.

There will never be a case when maas is able to correctly enumerate all hardware systems prior to their existence. That is simply unrealistic, and would require that *all* hardware manufactures hold hardware release until Canonical says "it looks good".

I'm just requesting a simple setting, that already exists.
Right now, if maas gets a pxe boot request for a MAC address it doesn't know, it sends i386/generic.
I'm just saying you should let me configure it to send $ARCH/$SUBARCH.