Brendan Conoboy (blc(a)redhat.com) said:
On 07/15/2013 11:09 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>If I'm understanding you, you would prefer that ARM be blessed with the
>stamp of being a 'primary' arch at the cost of dropping release targets,
>images, and featuresets that are made by and for the community now.
I wouldn't put it like that. The ARM team isn't asking for a
blessing, we're asking to have builds that block ARM also block x86.
At a technical level, that is a fundamental part of what being
primary is. Yes, there are other aspects, both practical (what is
released) and philosophical (What is Fedora). It's the next logical
step. If not now, when? When libGL is ready to go?
... when someone fixes it?
>I don't think I can support that - it seems awfully
unfriendly to the
>community that exists now.
You are proceeding from a misconception: This is a thought exercise-
If ARM devices didn't have graphics would it still be essential for
PA promotion that libGL for ARM work and be accelerated? There is
no proposal to throw out the baby or the bathwater. This is about
defining the threshold at which point armv7hl gets built along side
i686 and x86_64.
And I'm saying that threshold should be that the major libraries work. That
includes libGL.
After all, IT WORKS ON S390. This is not a high bar, and I wouldn't consider
it a requirement for that arch.
Sure, the hardware you care about doesn't include graphics. But the hardware
the community cares about does.
Bill