On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 11-07-17 22:57, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> 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:
>>>
>>>
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.
I still have (some) 32 bit hardware in use and I must say that I was
not aware of this zombie state. i686 kernels have been working fine for
me otherwise I would have likely stepped up to fix things (or if that
was too much work replace my last 32bit hardware), but I may just have
been lucky and never hit a bad kernel.
If the kernel team wants some specific help with ia32 support then
2 things need to happen:
1) A clear request for help needs to be send
2) What exactly they need help with needs to be clearly defined