Re: No i686 kernel: Can we require SSE2 for i686?

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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.

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