On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran into this unannounced change:
>
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Kernels
>
> If this is accepted, all x86 hardware on which Fedora can run will
> support SSE2, and we should reflect that in the i686 build flags.

The reason we have kept the i686 flags at the level they are was to
support the original XO which is still in wide use, there are groups
in that community that use later versions of Fedora and it would
remove their ability to do that (they use a custom kernel anyway).

> How likely is it that this proposal is accepted?  Ideally, we would know
> this before the mass rebuild so that we can change the compiler flags in
> redhat-rpm-config.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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