On 10/13/2017 03:58 AM, Harold Toms wrote: > On 13/10/17 09:53, Harold Toms wrote: >> I've just noticed the i386 Centos 7.4 updates have appeared, including >> bringing it to kernel 3.10.0-693.2.2. I suspect that a great deal of >> work had to go in to achieving this. May I say a big "Thank-You" to >> everyone who has made this possible! >> >> > Oops! Must be Friday 13th or something... that title should have been > "Centos 7.4". > You are welcome. And yes, the kernel was hard. Also, grub2 support was also hard. I would like to publicly thank the Springdale Linux maintainers from Princeton University for their work on both of those packages. Akemi Yagi also gets much thanks for her work on the CentOS Plus kernel, which we use on the i386 arch since we need to make several changes. We really didn't think we were going to get a working 3.10.0-693 kernel for i386 (really i686). The newer grub2 does not work at all with secure boot and needs Legacy Mode as well on UEFI machines. We will try very hard to maintain this 32 bit Intel arch as long as we can .. BUT .. many different distros are stopping i386/i686 support (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc .. not to mention other than some multilib packages, RHEL itself does not have i386), I am not sure how much longer we can maintain i386 as a stand alone arch. I will try to maintain i386 as long as I can, hopefully for the entire lifetime, although at some point, we may have to shift to an upstream LTS type kernel. Right now we have such an experimental kernel available here: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/i386/ How to set up that repository is discussed here: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386 Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20171013/93f0b7f6/attachment-0004.sig>