Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 15 18:53:37 UTC 2009



On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Chris Weyl wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>       A seconday arch could be done for these older CPUs, if someone is interested
>       enough.
> 
> 
> Another option would be to retain the current i586 support, and add the i686+SSE2 as a new primary arch, with an eye
> towards depreciating the current x32 support down the road.  There would seem to be less initial pain involved here, and
> everyone would get what they want :)
> 
>                                            -Chris

Except for those of us who want to get rid of the support for old hardware. :)

-sv


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