kernel SOP?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:15:03PM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Forwarded from my post at test@
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2014-January/120172.html

The Fedora 12 Feature page is how I would expect such things to be
handled.  We haven't dropped support for a CPU class since then, and I
don't expect us to anytime soon for i686/x86_64 CPUs.  The next change
in x86-land would likely be the removal of 32-bit support entirely, but
that is a rather significant change across the distro and I would expect
lots of discussion about it before it happened.

The ARM team handles things a bit differently in terms of what CPUs they
support.  I believe right now it's just armv7hfp class CPUs.  That
should remain the case going forward for 32-bit CPUs, and ARMv8 will add
support for 64-bit ARM CPUs when hardware is available.

The PowerPC team is currently focused on 64-bit CPUs, primarily POWER7.
I would expect POWER8 to be the focus once it is released.  The 32-bit
ppc kernels are still built, but there is no 32-bit install media and
those wishing to use 32-bit PowerPC CPUs are essentially on their own.

The s390x support is limited to the big iron System Z machines.  If you
have one of those, you already know what is going on anyway.

We don't support any other class of CPU other than the above mentioned.

josh