Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jon Ciesla (limb(a)jcomserv.net) said:
> PLEASE do not do this.
>
> If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole
> lot of new hardware. Dead serious.
>
> Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the
> future?
>
While I understand you may have a lot of older hardware, the point of a
*seconday* architecture is that it's not the primary architecture target.
Even if we didn't split off older CPUs, we're still primarily targeting
newer machines.
Bill
Understood. Currently, it's not just that I have a lot of older
hardware (though I do), it's that I have little newer hardware. Do we
have a policy on having to have access to a machine of a primary
architecture?
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