On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:08:29PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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. They're broken most of the time (under qemu at least). A while back I just stopped running the libguestfs tests on them because no one was interested in fixing them. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
