F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Jonathan Masters]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 5:32, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:58:08PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:50:24PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Or does it mean x86 as PA is out of line?  There are a lot more people
>>>> with ARM devices than x86.  Sorry everybody, we're going to have to demote
>>>> x86. ;-)
>>> False marketing.  Majority of ARM devices out there don't run Fedora and
>>> never will.
>> 
>> Sooner or later, though, we probably _should_ deemphasize 32-bit x86.
> 
> The website already links to 64-bit in preference to 32-bit. There's 
> arguably reasons to prefer 32-bit in certain memory-constrained 
> environments, but there's certainly arguments in favour of (say) 
> dropping most of the 32-bit x86 package set and turning it into a 
> specialised subset of the overall distribution.

Heck, if you're doing that, go x32 for those small set of libraries and force folks to build against those :) We'll have a similar API on AArch64 in due course and I wouldn't want to see a Primary Architecture missing feature parity with secondaries... :P