On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 04:10:56PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 05/06/2015 02:35 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
I'm going to say something that will be very unpopular but I feel it really needs to be said. Should we really care so much about i586? I don't have any 32-bit system since something like 2008, I definitely haven't seen any 32-bit x86 CPU in usual e-shops for at least 5 years and I'm not sure I would be able to buy one today if I tried hard.
Well, I still use a netbook every now and then that I like to update to get security fixes etc.
And you would (unless we are brave enough to drop i586), they would just be less tested than on x86_64. Which wouldn't really be that much different from today's 13.2 or Tumbleweed. Out of curiosity... the low-end netbook I bought in summer 2010 has a 64-bit processor; how old is yours that it doesn't?
Try to answer honestly: how much testing and QA did current (13.2 or Tumbleweed) openSUSE kernel get on i586?
Enough that the upgrade from 13.1 to 13.2 on the netbook worked flawlessly. Network, disk and everything I expect works.
And so does everything on mine running 13.1 with SLE12 based kernel. BtW, I have this combination on all my machines except two and all run without problems (I just don't consider it a statistically relevant sample). One of the remaining two has Evergreen 11.4 (with SLE11-SP2 based kernel) and runs fine as well. The only machine I have problems with is one I dared to install 13.2 on (but those are not kernel problems). Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org