[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/09/2012 03:48 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

>> The x86 port still supports a Pentium, I don't see any reason to drop
>> support for kirkwood.  Is it really that much extra effort?
>
> It is surprisingly quite a lot of effort.
>
> Fedora no longer supports Pentium actually. It was dropped some time
> ago (around Fedora 12 from memory).

F11 was the last version that supports i586. F12 is i686-only.

> The lowest level of support in
> Fedora for x86 is now Pentium Pro (Basically i586 + CMOV) which allows
> support for the OLPC XO-1 (AMD Geode Processor) and the only reason
> it's still at that level is because there's around 1.5 million XO-1
> united deployed and still be actively used and upgraded to current
> Fedora releases (The just released 12.1.0 is based on Fedora 17, the
> under development 13.1.0 release is based on Fedora 18). I know
> mainline Fedora would like to drop the support for that too if they
> could.

Might as well wait until the whole 32-bit branch can be dropped. 
Practically all x86 CPU made in most of the past decade is x86-64.

Gordan