On 28 August 2017 at 11:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/12/2017 03:44 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:44:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically >>>>> luck. >>>> >>>> You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many >>>> years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest. >>> >>> >>> I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support >>> architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard >>> for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of >>> support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true >>> of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I >>> guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey, >>> I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say "awesome", not >>> "Red Hat doesn't care". >> >> >> Would it be possible to make this a Prioritized Bug? >> It seems to be a classic case of "affects a lot of people, nobody seems >> to want to take interest". > > > Agreed, however I feel it's a classic case of "affects a lot of people, but > RHAT doesn't allow anybody to take action". > > That said, I do own and use several i686, but have learnt it's fruitless to > report bugs, because RHAT ignores them and because RHAT does not allow the > community to get involved. > > Ralf > > PS: Yes, your impression is right. I feel very grumpy about all this. > I am looking for anyone who would be willing to take over the x86_32 group. If you would like to do that, please join the mailing list and post what you want done. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
