On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:26:03PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> I ran into this unannounced change: >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Kernels >>> If this is accepted, all x86 hardware on which Fedora can run will >>> support SSE2, and we should reflect that in the i686 build flags. >>> How likely is it that this proposal is accepted? Ideally, we would know >>> this before the mass rebuild so that we can change the compiler flags in >>> redhat-rpm-config. >> >> Currently i686 users are at about 1/6th of x86_64 users, by mirror >> checkins. I don't have an easy way of knowing how many of those i686 >> checkins are old releases -- I'll need to ask Smooge to make a custom >> report -- but I think it's fair to guess that it's significantly tilted >> that way. So, taking a SWAG, I'd say maybe 10% of our users would be >> impacted. That's pretty big, but on the other hand if the cost is >> disproportionate -- and having heard from the kernel people about this >> for several years, I think it might be -- it's probably something we >> should do anyway. >> > > I'm actually somewhat against this change at well, as it's quite handy > to have x86_32 images for constrained VMs/cloudy environments. I use > it in this manner sometimes, and I know of a few people that do this > *a lot*, too. That's a common, and valid, usecase for a 32-bit *userspace* image. You can run such workloads with an x86_64 kernel though. The Change is not advocating for droping 32-bit userspace. Only the kernel. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
