On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On 07/11/2017 10:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:26:03PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>> I ran into this unannounced change:
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Kernels
>> If this is accepted, all x86 hardware on which Fedora can run will
>> support SSE2, and we should reflect that in the i686 build flags.
>> How likely is it that this proposal is accepted? Ideally, we would know
>> this before the mass rebuild so that we can change the compiler flags in
>> redhat-rpm-config.
>
>
> Currently i686 users are at about 1/6th of x86_64 users, by mirror
> checkins. I don't have an easy way of knowing how many of those i686
> checkins are old releases -- I'll need to ask Smooge to make a custom
> report -- but I think it's fair to guess that it's significantly tilted
> that way. So, taking a SWAG, I'd say maybe 10% of our users would be
> impacted. That's pretty big, but on the other hand if the cost is
> disproportionate If cost is an issue, consider to drop all these ppc, arm,
> s370 and mips
targets.
Their user base is like magnitudes smaller than the i686 user base, while
these target are having a significant impact (and thus cost) on everything
in Fedora.
Really? In the case of ARM I actually really doubt that, I'm aware of
ARM users well into the millions of units. In a lot of cases these are
sat behind proxies, or they run their own mirrors etc so they'd not
hit mirror manager.