On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:32:31 -0500 > > Why not? We're talking about getting Fedora running on > ARM and SPARC > and Alpha. Make i586 a secondary arch :) > Lets not do that, I know quite a few people running Fedora on epia's including older ones and I would hate to see Fedor not supporthing those machines anymore. Note I do not have any such a machine left myself. I think this discussion has been blown both off-topic and out of proportion. Dave wants to kill of the i585 kernel and still keep supporting i586, which I think is a great idea, ideally we would have / need only one kernel per arch. However we have this purely technical problem where for current i586 users rpm will not install the i686 kernels even though it can run on i586. Despites rpm's buggy, but documented / relied upon, behaviour of finding an i686 without cmov not an i686 (lets keep that out of the discusuion for now). I find this perfectly logical behaviour of rpm. Think about it i686 means only runs on i686 and better, so dave's proposed solution of naming it i586 is technically correct. This does mean however that rawhide i686 users (quite a lot of them) will have to manually install the first kernel update which is called .i586 using rpm -i should work just fine in this case. If we document and announce this I don't see a problem. As for normal updates, I'm sure anaconda can be thought to fix this. People doing (unssupported) yum updates should once again fix this manually, which again we need to document. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
