On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:25:45AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> On 01/24/2011 07:43 AM, drago01 wrote: >> > It is the only 32bit only CPU still being sold, >> >> There are plenty of machines with 32-bit only CPUs (such as early Celeron, >> Pentium socket 478, even some Core Duos [Apple Mini]) which run Fedora very well. >> Many are less than 5 years old. In the US, that means the depreciation rules >> of tax law strongly encourage their continued use. > > There's even plenty "still being sold". How about VIA, itx, and tons > of other small/embedded stuff that isn't Atom. Yes, like the 2 million XO-1s using geode processors (that with the move to i686 it was decided (no idea if it was board or FESCo) the XO-1 was something they wanted to support in Fedora, and the other millions of XO-1.5s that will be deployed in the coming year or two which run on VIA processors. > *However* optimizing for 32 bit surely has to be a waste of effort > these days. People who want performance should be using 64 bit > machines. For everyone else it's good enough that Fedora can still be > used. Optimizing for Atom alone is justified because Netbooks are > used interactively. So I think the Fedora flags are just right in > this case. That's fine IMO as long as it still runs reasonably on the other 32 bit platforms. Also all the nettop 1st gen atom processors are x86-64 and the 2nd gen atom netbook/nettop (N4xx/N5xx/D5xx) processors are x86-64 now too [1]. So in most cases its just first gen netbooks plus the devices based on z series, the later having issues anyway as they don't have an open and supported driver for their GPU. Peter [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_processor#History -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
