On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:22:21PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>> BTW are those new VIA netbooks SSE2-capable?
>>>>>
>>>> Additionally, what will this do to RHEL? I can't imagine RHEL
>>>> customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would
>>>> still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only be a secondary
>>>> arch in Fedora. . .
>>>
>>> This is not relevant for fedora's decisions.
>>>
>>> -sv
>>>
>> I'm not sure I understand why not. Are you saying that if RedHat
>> decided that RHEL7 was to support Sparc , there'd be no interest in
>> making that a primary arch?
>
> ppc/ppc64 is supported in RHEL. It is no longer a primary arch in Fedora.
Sorry? I thought it was still primary until after F-12. So yes its
scheduled to be a secondard arch for F-13 in 12 months time. Its not
one yet.
Correct. Though in the context of the discussion, it won't be in the RHEL7
timeframe. I was simply using it as a counter to the "but RHEL" argument.
josh