>>        2. The kernel and userland Makefiles now use completely
>>           different variables for holding the optimization flags.
>
>Currently, if I set "COPTS" to apply a sub-model optimization to the
>userland binaries, it also applies to the GENERIC and INSTALL kernels
>and the ramdisk, which is undesirable, and usually breaks the release.
>Is there (will there) be a way to do that?

yes.  i have a small patch to config(8) that simply sets
KERNEL_BUILD=<CONFIGNAME> at the top of the kernel makefile.  that
means you can (or will soon be able to) define things in your mk.conf
that only apply to kernels.

i have one other minor tweak to make to config first...

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