Default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

[Bert Freudenberg]

What's the decision process for this? Judging from the email thread  
there is more opposition than support, along the lines of "people who  
care about performance are on x84_64 anyway, so why cut off users of  
less capable machines unnecessarily?"

- Bert -

On 16.06.2009, at 08:41, Peter Robinson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This was just posted to the fedora-olpc list as a FYI. I suggest
> posting any replies to that list so that the Fedora people see any
> responses.
>
> Peter
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:19 AM
> Subject: Default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12
> To: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
>
>
> I thought this might be of interest to builders/developers here:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg01199.html
>
> Of note: Proposed change for F12 would mean the CPU in the OLPC-1.0
> hardware would explicitly not be supported beyond F11.  After talking
> to a few folks, my understanding is this isn't a big surprise, but I
> wanted to make sure we were explicitly calling it out for this group's
> information and, if needed, input.
>
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