On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 09:47:27AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
In February[2] we sent out an email highlighting that the kernel
team
was not going to treat i686 bugs as a priority. Since that time, we
have held true to our word and have not focused on fixing i686 bugs at
all. It seems that the wider community is also treating i686
similarly. The kernel bug that was made automatic blocker because of
existing criteria was present in Fedora since the 4.1-rc6 kernel,
which was released May 31. It has been in every boot.iso created
since that date. Not a single person reported this issue until last
week. That is a timespan of two months.
The kernel team has autotesting for i686 kernels, but the environment
there does not utilize boot.iso so it did not detect this. The QA
team has automated testing for some of this, but nothing for the i686
architecture at all. It is not a priority there either.
I regularly use i686 and have not done a fresh install since years so
would not detect this. Maybe fresh installs aren't such a deal for i686
users and the apparent stability is the reason why it gets less testing.
The hardware is not changing so if fresh bugs appear there is a good
chance that something else than just i686 is broken?
Appreciate all your efforts and would miss i686. Not a top priority
but maybe the memory footprint has some advantages on USB live images?
Richard
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