On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 13:44 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:44:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck.
> >
> > You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many
> > years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest.
>
> I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support
> architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard
> for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of
> support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true
> of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I
> guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey,
> I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say
"awesome", not
> "Red Hat doesn't care".
Would it be possible to make this a Prioritized Bug?
It seems to be a classic case of "affects a lot of people, nobody seems
to want to take interest".
It's not a question of a single specific bug, though. It's a question
of having someone or a group of someones interesting in the *ongoing
requirement* for making sure i686 still works.
To give an example outside of the kernel, the installer 'Reclaim Space'
function has been broken on i686 for about 10 months, and no-one seems
to be lining up to fix that one either:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375732
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