Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 15:22:21 UTC 2009


>>>>> BTW are those new VIA netbooks SSE2-capable?
>>>>>
>>>> Additionally, what will this do to RHEL?  I can't imagine RHEL
>>>> customers being too happy about this for RHEL7(?), and if i386 would
>>>> still be in RHEL, it would worry me that it would only be a secondary
>>>> arch in Fedora. . .
>>>
>>> This is not relevant for fedora's decisions.
>>>
>>> -sv
>>>
>> I'm not sure I understand why not.  Are you saying that if RedHat
>> decided that RHEL7 was to support Sparc , there'd be no interest in
>> making that a primary arch?
>
> ppc/ppc64 is supported in RHEL.  It is no longer a primary arch in Fedora.

Sorry? I thought it was still primary until after F-12. So yes its
scheduled to be a secondard arch for F-13 in 12 months time. Its not
one yet.

Peter




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