On 12/07/2013 10:07 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
В Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:00:00 -0500 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> пишет:
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> wrote:
El 05/12/13 14:18, Jeff Mahoney escribió:
I can share that we are not building
32-bit kernels for any architecture, so a SLE12 kernel used on openSUSE will have zero i586 testing performed on it as part of the SLE testing matrix. While I certainly wouldn't mind it happening, I don't know of any openSUSE plans to drop i586 support just yet.
Wow, that's good news, for openSUSE we must start by changing the download pages that default to 32 bit isos.. then slowly fade i586 away.. I propose 2 releases from now on.
As far as I know, VMplayer (free) only supports 32-bit, so until that changes, openSUSE needs to offer a 32-bit version.
Player supports 64 bit on suitable hardware (you need hardware virtualization support).
That's a significant requirement that lots of current hardware doesn't meet.
32-bit looks like it will hang around for long time as far as I'm concerned. I'm actually surprised SLES is able to ignore that user group, but that is not relevant to this list.
SLES users tend not to dig out old hardware to run a new version of the OS on it. PAE was an architectural workaround and there's no excuse to use it anymore now that we've had real 64-bit mode for a long time. The 4 GB limit is way too low for anything but the smallest server workloads especially when you account for the fact that it basically locks you into never adding more memory at full performance. -Jeff -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org