On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 09:05 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > If the kernel team wants some specific help with ia32 support then > > 2 things need to happen: > > > > 1) A clear request for help needs to be send > > 2) What exactly they need help with needs to be clearly defined > > Has happened multiple times over two years. > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/208368. > html > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproje > ct.org/message/GSIXKLR5RP5OIF6XMDP2WWYOKD4Y5LFM/ > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproje > ct.org/message/NJF45R5WFYVDJQJILQEWU2I4ADRYMAFN/ > > I'm not sure how it could be more clear. > > > Of course, it could have been trolled better by someone, by wiping > out > the original subject and substituting -- Fedora: "death to i686!" -- > > > > > Last as others have said, this is _clearly_ a systemwide change > > and the deadline for systemwide change proposals for F27 was July > > 4th, where as this page was created July 6th, moreover a change as > > big as this really needs to be discussed out in the open long > > before > > it gets implemented rather then hidden away in a Changes page. > > I see it both ways. It is self-contained in that it's strictly the > kernel without affecting user space at all. But it's system-wide in > that it does affect the distribution, it's effectively dropping the > hardware support for an entire architecture. But anyway, dropping > i686 > kernel is not a surprise to me, this has been a rather long leadout > train. While you're at it Chris, I (possibly ill-advisedly) touched https://bu gzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185518 if you've still got that machine with the ipw2100 around. Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
