On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:34:25AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > There's a lot of lower power devices which are still 32-bit only and are > going to be for quite a while as far as I can see. And being able to > trivially build for them is one of the reasons why you go for x86 for > them instead of an embedded specific chip like an arm or a mips. > The compatibility and the fact that it's all but entirely transparent is > a huge part of the value of the x86->x86_64 transition. But couldn't we make a chrooted build environment near-transparent too? Then it'd have those advantages on all architectures, *for* all architectures -- and for craziness like mingw32 -- without causing massive complexity for the normal server or desktop case. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
