[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Oct 10 17:47:56 UTC 2012


Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Half decade maybe as Intel first introduced 64 bit CPUs in early 2005
> and it took a while to spread through their product set, and  there
> was a lot of Atom CPUs that weren't 64 bit capable. But I agree the
> reasons for 32 is slowly receding.

Sure, but we're a decade later.  Kirkwood devices were just released
what?  3 years ago?  I certainly got mine more recently than that.  I
admit I've been running F12 on it, but that's only because there hadn't
been another fedora release until F17.

> Peter

-derek

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