On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 14:51 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > After preliminary discussions with CPU vendors, we propose AVX2 as the > new baseline. AVX2 support was introduced into CPUs from 2013 to > 2015. See > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX2 > CPUs with AVX2].
This is not what I'd call a good idea. I've had to shoot it down several times on internal mailing lists for RHEL, I think it's even less a good idea for Fedora. Skylake Pentium and Celeron models - dating from 2015 - don't have AVX at all. Why do we want to break them? Has Intel promised they're not going to pull a trick like that again? If we really want to chase after Clear Linux benchmarks then fix ld.so to know that avx2 is a capability (like we could for i686 + sse2). Moving the baseline like this is far, far too aggressive. - ajax _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
