On 8 July 2014 08:31, Konstantin Olchanski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:19:58AM -0700, Jim McCarthy wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Connie Sieh wrote: > > >> > > >> I note that only X86-64 is available; have I missed something about > > >> supported ISAs, or will there also be an IA-32 port/distribution as > > >> well? > > >> > > >> Yasha Karant > > > > > > TUV is only releasing X86-64 . > > > > > > -Connie Sieh > > > > Is this for TUV "v7 ALPHA", or is this to become 'the new normal' going > > forward ? > > > > My best guess is - there is no 32-bit RHEL7 because "they" decided to use > the XFS filesystem by default, but XFS only works on 64-bit systems > (something about stack size or page size or something obscure like that). > > This is a wise decision if you consider that all serious UNIX machines > went 64-bit back in the late-1990-ies (SGI, DEC, etc), > and that all new PC hardware is 64-bit capable. > > This is a silly decision if you consider your pile of 32-bit-only > Pentium-3 and -4 based VME SBCs > that you use to run all the experiments data acquisition systems and much > of the accelerator controls. > (These 32-bit-only machines are here to stay and they cannot be upgraded > to 64-bit CPU > and they cannot be economically replaced by 64-bit-capable VME SBCs - > requires major $$$ plus > major man-hours for software updates and testing). > > Well I would probably just run EL-6 on those boxes until the end of their lives. There isn't going to be any improvement in baseline software for those older architectures between EL-6 and EL-7 (and for Pentium 3's maybe no difference between EL-5 and EL-6). -- Stephen J Smoogen.
