Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for

Fri Jan 30 23:09:00 UTC 2009

On Friday, 30 January 2009 at 21:35, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) said, in the FESCo meeting summary: 
> > * Architecture Support
> >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport
> > 
> >   FESCo tabled this to revisit this next week. There were questions
> >   about OLPC support and LSTP client machines. Discussion to continue
> >   on fedora-devel list.
> 
> As a followup to the discussion on compiler flags, this feature was
> written up to describe a plan for what to do overall about what
> architectures we support. The main points are:
> 
> - install x86_64 kernel on 32-bit OS where appropriate
> - install PAE kernel on other 32-bit OS installs where appropriate
> - build only i686 and above for Fedora

There's going to be some screaming from VIA C3 and AMD K6 users about this.

Regards,
R.

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