On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:42:45AM +0200, tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, 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 > > > > -- > > devel mailing list > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > <troll mode> > Why do we waste time on Linux, when we all just can use Windows, the > desktop market leader ???? > </troll mode> > > Linux is about choices and is driven by people by by people with passions > for something, even if not what every body else think is importent. > So telling people to don't waste time on something they care about, Is > wrong in so many ways. Damn right! I'm running Linux (not Fedora, sadly) on my OpenRISC FPGA. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
