On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 22:26, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I ran into this unannounced change: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Kernels > > I noticed this is categorized as self-contained, which I think is wrong. > > I also have hardware that would no longer run Fedora after such change > (a netbook with an older Intel Atom CPU which supports SSE2, but is > 32bit). Unless the change proponent can provide some numbers suggesting > that 32bit users are a tiny minority of our userbase, I'll probably > be against such change.
Anyone with 32-bit hardware is going to be against this change. It is a known downside. It also doesn't change the fact that i686 kernels are in a zombie state, where the kernel team does not actively support them and the community has not significantly stepped up to do so. That approach was done quite a while ago, and explicitly communicated. The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
