32 bit AMI registration boot problem: explaination and possible solutions

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:32:29PM -0700, Mike Ruckman wrote:
> The more I think about it - why do we need 32bit AMIs in the first place?
> EC2, Openstack, and company all support 64bit OOTB. Is there an instance
> where you would pick a 32bit cloud instance *over* a 64bit on? I can't
> think of any instances where that would be the case. But then again, I could
> be wrong and it's more common/needed than I know.

Feedback we've gotten so far is that there are still cases where the
reduced memory usage is desired. I don't know if we want to go so far
as only providing 32 bit on micro and small instances — the matrix gets
complicated!


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader