On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either. > > Sure there are... from the change page: > > "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit > these days. It has been in a status of "community supported" for several > Fedora releases now. As such, it gets very little testing, and issues > frequently appear upstream. These tend to go unnoticed for long periods > of time. When issues are found, it is often a long time before they are > fixed because they are considered low priority by most developers > upstream. This can leave other architectures waiting for important > updates, and provides a less than desirable experience for people > choosing to run a 32bit kernel. With this proposal, the i686 kernel will > no longer be built. A kernel headers package will still exist, and all > 32bit packages should continue to build as normal. The main difference > is there would no longer be bootable 32bit images." > > The lack of fixes for i686 kernels is slowing down all the other arches > that are supported (and thus all of fedora). > > kevin The first sentence of that paragraph is simply incorrect, new hardware doesn't change what old hardware supports, nor does the availability of new hardware replace old hardware in itself. - - John Harris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
