On Monday 11 May 2009 15:02:59 Peter Robinson wrote: > > I would really like to see a proliferation of secondary arches in > > Fedora, but I don't think 'workstation' is a viable usage model for > > them to get started. Most will have to focus on the type of hardware > > that actually sells for that arch, and yes I realize that can be at > > odds with some of the directions Fedora is going. > > I think there are most likely two candidates for a secondary arch > other than PPC. The first is sparc where from the server point of view > where its probably about as prolific as PPC in that regard. The second > would be arm but that is more from the NetBook/MID/Phone/STB > perspective where there are quite a few devices in the 500Mhz-1Ghz > range with 256-512Mb RAM. With the OLPC X0-1 we've proven that Fedora > can run relatively well on that sort of spec, they also tend to be > relatively cheap. Once we switch our 32-bit x86 packages from i586 to i686 for F12 (hopefully w/sse2 enabled as well), then i586 becomes a very doable secondary arch as well, if enough people are interested in keeping their clunkers running the latest-n-greatest stuff... -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
