On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:44:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > >The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck. > > You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many > > years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest. > > I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support > architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard > for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of > support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true > of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I > guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey, > I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say "awesome", not > "Red Hat doesn't care". Would it be possible to make this a Prioritized Bug? It seems to be a classic case of "affects a lot of people, nobody seems to want to take interest". Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
