Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: No More i686 Kernels

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On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 9:32 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > On 6/24/19 10:00 AM, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:41 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> > > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> > >> Maybe the Change could be renamed to reflect the full impact:
> > >> "No more i686 kernels or images"?
> > >
> > > Changed on the wiki.
> >
> > Note that as far as I recall, this also means containers, as we need a
> > kernel to build those, right?
>
> If there are no i686 images, and no i686 containers, and anaconda can't
> install i686 userspace with x86_64 kernel... is there any regular way to
> consume i686 applications?  It seems like the only reason to continue
> building i686 RPMs would be for multilib (and their build dependencies),
> which is a small subset of the total RPMs.

Third parties using the userspace with their own kernels, I know there
were groups using a custom kernel with i686 for various OLPC use cases
still.
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