On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is
basically luck.
You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many
years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest.
I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support
architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard
for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of
support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true
of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I
guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey,
I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say "awesome",
not
"Red Hat doesn't care".
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Matthew Miller
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