On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:58:20PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > But surely these 32-bit tablets aren't the only good place where these > >> > things can be worked on? > >> To clarify, Bastien is talking about tablets that have 64-bit CPUs and > >> 64-bit kernels, but 32-bit UEFI firmware. Not i686 tablets. Which is > >> actually pretty terrible in its own right, but still distinct from a > >> 32-bit tablet. > > > > Ah, okay, thanks. How does *that* fit in with kernel team's plans? > > It mostly doesn't impact us. We already enable EFI_MIXED in the > kernel. The remaining work is in shim and grub afaik. > > (Barring bugs and such of course.) So AIUI so far, there's no reason from the Workstation POV an i686 tree/distro is strictly needed. I'm assuming no one is proposing doing away with i686 userspace packages. (We would certainly care about that, for example because of prepackaged 32-bit software.) * Bastien, are you going to talk to grub/shim maintainer(s)? (I think pjones works on both of these.) * Is there any other input we need/want to provide from Workstation WG? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
