On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > well, at my home I have more arm machines than x86 I am replacing x86 with arm -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto msn, google talk: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +55 11 4063 5033 (FIXO SP) +55 34 9158 9329 (TIM) +55 34 8806 3989 (OI) +55 34 3221 8599 (FIXO MG) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
