On 06/17/2009 11:10 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
- We are likely doing a mass rebuild for F-12 anyways, might as well switch
while we're doing it
That's a pretty poor justification.
The common complaint leveled about doing it was "why go to the extra effort".
If we're doing a mass rebuild, it's essentailly zero extra effort.
"extra effort" referred to a secondary arch probably more so than mass
rebuild.
- Atom is the only currently produced 32-bit x86 chip of note; optimize
for what's currently available
There are also lots of other chips that people run 32 bit x86 code on.
I don't think Atom is a majority percentage of 32 bix x86 Fedora users
either.
See the Fedora Foundations [1] and Objectives [2] page. If we're truly
about being on the leading edge, being innovative, etc., the main target
of Fedora should be current hardware, even if older hardware is still
supported. The only *current* 32-bit x86 hardware is Atom. (And Nano, I
suppose.)
Nano is 64bit with virt.
BTW, anyone tested these yet with Fedora?
Warren Togami
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