Hi, I've been pointed to a news item about a (apparently the first) x86 (Atom) based smartphone: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/orange-san-diego-review/ So even smartphones are going x86 now. It looks like x86 is going to defeat ARM just like it defeated all the previous attempts at changing the instruction set, even Intel's own IA-64. The fastest x86 CPUs are still worlds faster than the fastest ARM CPUs. This new smartphone's single-core Atom is competitive in speed with other smartphones' multi-core ARMs. So I would urge Fedora not to waste our time on a low-end architecture filling a temporary niche which will become obsolete as demand for performance increases. We should rather support only one primary architecture (x86, i.e.: x86_64, and legacy i686 as long as there's a need for it) and support it well, as we have done since we finally got rid of the legacy PPC burden. Niche architectures are exactly what secondary architectures are for. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
