-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2015 02:35 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:06:20PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Well, I am not convinced about this. Especially that SLE no longer has an x86 implementation.
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.
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.
How much chance of getting attention to an i586-specific bug would you get? Do you really believe that given the circumstances and popularity of i586 among kernel developers, the state of i586 kernel would be significantly worse if we based openSUSE kernel on SLE (compared to current state)?
I believe that if there were an i586 specific bug and I have a recent enough kernel I can get help upstream. However, with a kernel that is based on an older release and carries a lot of patches that will be more difficult. Later, Robert - -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVSnVQAAoJEE4FgL32d2UkJ3cIAKaQE2XE8RJWHk8x22QFIeOE sHFn1yEwG0y9BCVn39b4hs1Vf3/QBMaPh/NFPbWi+I6G9all3JZQVIkKtLcYBpAv hRvuCUBFTVd0A5QHg56D9z9n5JXIi25csQy/73pt/GTojRIp/ns3aTAVMtk3pDR4 GKN+YnKS03QALX8XF8gu013/nC3K0xxSaglA8vAhAZ/YyQlwjVspmcj34FKIPqMX 3NzFdNVG3vlrdV54apd+khQbYNpVpKrh35p+gwILEbcMaP77t9atayVZi4/ntR81 HsMhBr/2VNLbSrf0lBaloE4WUcIuFIzD3FHyoCGWG2on0coj9OT7AD45UoVGDfs= =1wpS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org