On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 23:17:30 -0500,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is not a violent cheat. It was proposed this way 2 years ago. At
the time a SIG was created to maintain i686 so that it could continue
as a secondary arch. They are inactive. See the post in the SIG there.
When a call for a status was made (as the only traffic on their list
so far this year), it got a single reply from someone saying that they
would no longer have 32bit hardware as of August.
I'm the one who responded.
I still have one machine that runs i686, but not x86_64. I'm hoping it
keeps working until August, when I can afford to buy the rest of my power 9
based Blackbird to replace it.
I have one other machine that I use on occasion that boots with an i686
kernel, because I used that when I first got it to use the same arch
for all of my machines at that time. And I have been deferring doing a
cross arch upgrade, but will in August. In theory I have another laptop
with a bad keyboard, that can't use x86_64, but that I think would run current
Fedora i686 kernels. But I haven't powered it on in years.
I have done bisects for i686 issues in the past. I haven't had to in
a while (at least a year for an i686 specific issue).
People will actually get until spring if this passes, if they don't use
rawhide.
The hardware I have that is stuck on i686 is around 15 years old. I don't
know other people who run hardware that old. I'm sure there are some, but
probably not many. I would also expect new shiny software (i.e. Fedora)
and ancient hardware is an odd combination.
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