I'm more interested in the lowest common denominator Intel architecture. Specifically: Can RPM assume sse2 instructions and optimize digests/crypto to use sse2?
73 de Jeff On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for removal. > > Proposal: remove i486 from Th. > > Rationale: > > It's increasingly more problematic to get everything built on i486, some > packages explicitly say "no" to this arch, some require hacks and > strange workarounds, and other just silently fail in mysterious ways. > All this makes maintainability cost of i486 very high, and combined > with the size of userbase, overly high. > > Some usage stats from the Sun Nov 16 - Sun Dec 14 period, from > ftp1.pld-linux.org: > > # zgrep x86_64 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep > poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l > 533 > > # zgrep i686 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep > poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l > 730 > > # zgrep i486 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep > poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | wc -l > 20 > > # zgrep i486 /var/log/archive/xferlog*gz | grep -v <builder-ip> | grep > poldek | awk '{ print $7 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > [exact IPs removed to protect privacy] > < 10 4 IPs > < 50 4 IPs > < 100 4 IPs > < 1000 7 IPs >> 1000 1 IP > > As you can see there are 20 distinct users of i486, out of which > maybe 5 really use this arch. > > Due to higher workload i486 arch requires compared to anything else and > symbolic userbase, I propose to drop it from Th. > > Comments? > > PS. we can use former i486 builder for x32 port if there will be takers. > > -- > Jan Rękorajski | PLD/Linux > SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/ > _______________________________________________ > pld-devel-en mailing list > pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en