[CentOS-devel] EPEL and i686

Fri Jan 24 23:33:47 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

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.

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.




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