On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/11/2017 10:43 PM, Matthew Miller 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 If cost is an issue, consider to drop all these ppc, arm, >> s370 and mips > > targets. > > Their user base is like magnitudes smaller than the i686 user base, while > these target are having a significant impact (and thus cost) on everything > in Fedora. Really? In the case of ARM I actually really doubt that, I'm aware of ARM users well into the millions of units. In a lot of cases these are sat behind proxies, or they run their own mirrors etc so they'd not hit mirror manager. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
