On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 22:26, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I ran into this unannounced change:
>
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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