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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:35:22 -0500
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 14:01 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > This is an opportunity for community members for whom i686 is a
> > > passion to join the team to participate in the bugfixing
> > > required. We previously called out the need for assistance[2],
> > > but had no substantial response. We hope that being transparent
> > > about our priorities will prompt interested community members
> > > to help. If you are interested to help, here are some resources
> > > to get started:
> > <snip>
> >
> > Given our past history with passive requests for help, I think it
> > might be beneficial to put a time limit on things. For example,
> > if no i686 Kernel SIG steps up and agrees to handle bugs on that
> > platform, we should strongly consider demoting i686 to secondary
> > architecture for installation media at the Fedora 23 branch point
> > (about six months from now).
> >
> > Note: I'm only suggesting that we would demote the kernel and
> > install media, *NOT* the 32-bit runtime libraries on an x86_64
> > system; we would still need to be building those.
>
> How do you propose demoting to secondary only the kernel/install
> without the userspace? Do you mean de-emphasise the i686 bit
> platform?
>
Well, that was more a political and rel-eng statement than a
technical one. Effectively, we'd not build the kernel package or do
release- blocking composes of i686 media. However, the Koji
build-system would still have to be capable of producing i686 builds
as a primary architecture. So yes, from a purely technical
standpoint, it's a muddy statement.
from a purely technical point of view it would be a complete and utter
mess. given how secondary arches work, we would be largely screwed
supporting such a model. at least without sitting down and majorly
redoing things.
Dennis
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