586 kernels.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 22:26:20 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:10:35PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > Yeah. The alternative is that I un-kill 586, and we continue shipping
 > > that forever.  (Or we just tell those 38 586 users to go make their
 > > own spin).
 > 
 > For FC7 I don't see an easy answer

F7 is irrelevant. Given it's already released, it's too late for
any change of this nature.

 > - Fix the 586 kernel to be built 686 -cmov
 > and push it as 586 for testing and verification.

That's what the current 686 kernel is in rawhide.

 > For FC8 remove the RPM hack
 > ship real 686 binaries (not GCC '686 and a bit' binaries) and we'll rock.

I'd rather we fixed this without introducing hacks we know we're
going to have to later remove.

	Dave

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