Once upon a time, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> said:
> 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].

There are still new systems being sold that don't support AVX, much less
AVX2.  I installed an Intel Atom C3758 system today, and it doesn't
support AVX.  With the end of i686 (which I think is reasonable), this
would kill Fedora on a significant amount of hardware.

-- 
Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net>
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