Hi, On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:24:22PM -0600, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 14:43 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > > Per discussion at UDS the kernel team is proposing to drop the non-PAE > > i386 flavour. The upgrade path for non-PAE users will be the PAE kernel. > > Those CPUs that do not have i686 and PAE support will be orphaned. To > > the best of my knowledge, these include Intel CPUs prior to Pentium II, > > 400Mhz Pentium M, VIA C3, and Geode LX. As far as I know, there are no > > laptop or desktop class CPUs being produced that do not meet these > > minimum requirements. > > The Geode LX AFAIK is certainly still in use. I know when I was looking > to buy an embedded system earlier this year, I came across quite a few > of these in new systems. > > What about simply demoting the binary packages for this flavor, but > still build it? We wouldn't have to explicitly test it for SRUs/security > updates or deal with it with LTS backorts, but it would presumably still > be in ok shape since we would be actively testing the i686 pae kernel. > It could also provide a (albeit manual) fallback for people where the > pae kernel doesn't work on their system.
I would really appreciate this approach. I think these CPUs are primarily used in thin clients, appliances, embedded, etc. I suspect having the kernel available in the repos is sufficient in most of those cases. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.rapidrollout.com
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