Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: >>> Eventually (wheezy+2? +3?) we would stop building a kernel package >>> for i386. >> >> As in drop the i386 arch? > > No, keep i386 userland only. Though we might consider reducing even > that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to > ia32-libs today, only cleaner).
I'd love to see that happen someday, but at the moment, new x86 systems still get sold that don't support 64-bit. Notably, many low-power Atom processors still don't support 64-bit. If at some point 64-bit becomes a required feature on all new x86 processors, with a definite indication that no new 32-bit-only processors will ever show up, then a few years after that this change could become reasonable. The rest of your plan, namely migrating the 64-bit kernel to a multiarch package instead of an i386 package, seems appropriate as soon as testing shows that multiarch can smoothly handle it (which probably means after the wheezy release, for safety). And automatically enabling multiarch based on processor capabilities seems like a good plan as well; eventually, that'll start becoming necessary for manageability, once new partial architectures start showing up for more fine-grained processor features. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520210223.GA13123@leaf
