Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 17:58:13 UTC 2009


Jon Ciesla (limb at jcomserv.net) said: 
> PLEASE do not do this.
>
> If we stop supporting Pentium II and Pentium III, I have to buy a whole  
> lot of new hardware.   Dead serious.
>
> Could we do i686 as a secondary arch, and swap with i386 further in the  
> future?

While I understand you may have a lot of older hardware, the point of a
*seconday* architecture is that it's not the primary architecture target.
Even if we didn't split off older CPUs, we're still primarily targeting
newer machines.

Bill




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