On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:58:13PM -0400, 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.
So conversely, someone could do an i386/i586 secondary architecture effort.
josh