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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories
From:       "John M. Harris Jr." <johnmh () splentity ! com>
Date:       2019-09-11 6:01:34
Message-ID: 2071517.hdfAlRTWVX () schlecht ! jharris ! pw
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On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote:
> > There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either.
> 
> Sure there are... from the change page:
> 
> "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit
> these days. It has been in a status of "community supported" for several
> Fedora releases now. As such, it gets very little testing, and issues
> frequently appear upstream. These tend to go unnoticed for long periods
> of time. When issues are found, it is often a long time before they are
> fixed because they are considered low priority by most developers
> upstream. This can leave other architectures waiting for important
> updates, and provides a less than desirable experience for people
> choosing to run a 32bit kernel. With this proposal, the i686 kernel will
> no longer be built. A kernel headers package will still exist, and all
> 32bit packages should continue to build as normal. The main difference
> is there would no longer be bootable 32bit images."
> 
> The lack of fixes for i686 kernels is slowing down all the other arches
> that are supported (and thus all of fedora).
> 
> kevin

The first sentence of that paragraph is simply incorrect, new hardware doesn't 
change what old hardware supports, nor does the availability of new hardware 
replace old hardware in itself.

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John Harris

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