Validity of i686 as a release blocker

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 13 13:17:44 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 10:47 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:40:28AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > "Ambivalent" is probably understated here.  It's hard to imagine
> > people securing i686 hardware these days to run a Workstation
> > experience, after all.
> 
> The question, I think, is how much we want to prioritize the
> "Workstation experience" on older hardware (or on devices like the
> Baytrail tablets).

Just to this point - if we wanted to support the Baytrail tablets
properly we should probably get 64-on-32 working. Allowing 32-bit UEFI
installs probably isn't something we want to do officially. The way
Fedlet is built is honestly just the way that was easiest for me to
hack up.
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