>> > 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... What about the million odd (not sure of the actual deployment numbers) OLPC XO clunkers out there that fall into this category? I though the whole difference between i586 and i686 was cmov and that wasn't considered a great performance boost. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
