On 11 July 2017 at 16:57, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 22:26, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> I ran into this unannounced change: >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Kernels >> >> I noticed this is categorized as self-contained, which I think is wrong. >> >> I also have hardware that would no longer run Fedora after such change >> (a netbook with an older Intel Atom CPU which supports SSE2, but is >> 32bit). Unless the change proponent can provide some numbers suggesting >> that 32bit users are a tiny minority of our userbase, I'll probably >> be against such change. > > Anyone with 32-bit hardware is going to be against this change. It is > a known downside. It also doesn't change the fact that i686 kernels > are in a zombie state, where the kernel team does not actively support > them and the community has not significantly stepped up to do so. > That approach was done quite a while ago, and explicitly communicated. > > The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck. Or that they have been broken at various times and no one noticed. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
