On 07/12/2017 03:44 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:44:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck.
You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many
years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest.
I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support
architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard
for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of
support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true
of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I
guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey,
I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say "awesome", not
"Red Hat doesn't care".
Would it be possible to make this a Prioritized Bug?
It seems to be a classic case of "affects a lot of people, nobody seems
to want to take interest".
Agreed, however I feel it's a classic case of "affects a lot of people,
but RHAT doesn't allow anybody to take action".
That said, I do own and use several i686, but have learnt it's fruitless
to report bugs, because RHAT ignores them and because RHAT does not
allow the community to get involved.
Ralf
PS: Yes, your impression is right. I feel very grumpy about all this.
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