Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 18:03:23 UTC 2009


On 15/06/09 18:58, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv.net) said:
>> PLEASE do not do this.
>>
>> If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole
>> lot of new hardware.   Dead serious.
>>
>> Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the
>> future?
>
> While I understand you may have a lot of older hardware, the point of a
> *seconday* architecture is that it's not the primary architecture target.
> Even if we didn't split off older CPUs, we're still primarily targeting
> newer machines.
>
> Bill
>

Hope I'm not sidetracking.
Was there also talk of all 64bit cpu's
getting a 64bit kernel?
Even if install was 32bit?

Frank








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