On 07/11/2017 11:03 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:43 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.
The kernel team quit "supporting" i686 several releases ago, it is
down to community support, which is pretty much nonexistent.
This was obvious.
Sure,
people file bugs, but rarely do people point to or supply patches for
those bugs.
I was amongst them. The problem to users is not getting any response nor
any hint from anybody to enable them chase bugs.
Fortunately, most presumed i686 specific issues seem to "heal" by
itself, likely due to upstream fixes or because they were not i686
specific.
Justin
My biggest problem with is your announcement mentioned above.
I take this as a rude slap into my face, to say the least.
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