On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:43 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. It would also remove things like OLPC XO-1 (no idea whether it would impact the VIA processor in the 1.5) which in some communities use newer releases but would never ever hit the update servers. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
