On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/09/2012 03:48 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >>> The x86 port still supports a Pentium, I don't see any reason to drop >>> support for kirkwood. Is it really that much extra effort? >> >> >> It is surprisingly quite a lot of effort. >> >> Fedora no longer supports Pentium actually. It was dropped some time >> ago (around Fedora 12 from memory). > > > F11 was the last version that supports i586. F12 is i686-only. > > >> The lowest level of support in >> Fedora for x86 is now Pentium Pro (Basically i586 + CMOV) which allows >> support for the OLPC XO-1 (AMD Geode Processor) and the only reason >> it's still at that level is because there's around 1.5 million XO-1 >> united deployed and still be actively used and upgraded to current >> Fedora releases (The just released 12.1.0 is based on Fedora 17, the >> under development 13.1.0 release is based on Fedora 18). I know >> mainline Fedora would like to drop the support for that too if they >> could. > > > Might as well wait until the whole 32-bit branch can be dropped. Practically > all x86 CPU made in most of the past decade is x86-64. Half decade maybe as Intel first introduced 64 bit CPUs in early 2005 and it took a while to spread through their product set, and there was a lot of Atom CPUs that weren't 64 bit capable. But I agree the reasons for 32 is slowly receding. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
