[CentOS-devel] EPEL and i686

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 01/25/2014 12:39 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 01/25/2014 01:33 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> On 01/25/2014 12:00 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
>>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 01/24/2014 10:26 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>>>> On 01/25/2014 12:13 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whats the plan for EPEL i686 / EL7 ? Does anyone know if there is even
>>>>>> going to be a multilib attempt or is everything going to stay x86_64 clean ?
>>>>> they build for x86_64 and ppc64 only,
>>>> So then the question is - what is the process to enable i686 there ( or,
>>>> do we then need to own all of EPEL - atleast some subset ) locally if we
>>>> are going to attempt a i686 CentOS build ?
>>>>
>>>> - KB
>>> Could I ask what the use case is for i386 support? I know that the pointers are smaller but memory is cheap. Is this a speed or a hardware or a can it be done goal?
>>>
>>> Todd
>> As I can see, so far, RHEL 7 has minimum hardware requirements very
>> close to 6.x, at least for the Desktop/Workstation use.
>>
>> In developing countries there is still lots of 32-bit hardware that will
>> not be thrown away just because 64-bit is better. If there is no 32-bit
>> version, all of those using 32-bit systems now will either stay with 6.x
>> or move to Something that provides 32-bit distro version like Ubuntu. I
>> expect that hardware will be around for another 3-5 years, just until
>> RHEL 8 is out.
> +1
>
>> Also, Embedded systems mostly have 32-bit processors, as far as I know,
>> not needing 64-bit ones, so it would be nice to use CentOS on them, not
>> some other distro.
> +1 as well. So far I had to run linaro on all my ARM boards.

ARM are another matter.

But Alix boards for example use x86 AMD Geode LX CPU ("All that should 
be required is a kernel patched to emulate the nopl instruction in 
software. The Geode LX has everything required for i686 except that 
instruction."), etc.




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