On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 20:22:01 +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > If we have i686 arch we need to support i686 CPUs, not a random subset.
We don't "need" to do anything. SSE2 is 13 years old now (and available for 11 years in AMD), I haven't seen unsupported CPUs in years. Hardware produced in that time is already dead (capacitors on mainboard were dead after 2-3 years of running in heat produced by power hungry CPUs and graphic cards). I've got more fully-functional i586- hardware in my drawer than early-2000 crapware. Pre-SSE2 hardware is worth less than energy it consumes, supporting this is unrational - unless you prefer proper terminology over pragmatic approach. >> So how about replacing i486 with i786? > > Creating such artificial entity would be a waste of resources. Running i686 without modern extensions is a waste of resources. Creating x32 is a waste of resources (this won't ever be generic purpose arch). Let's drop i686 as well and call this i686+, i686_with_SSE2 or whatever you like if i686 name is bogus for SSE2 superset and i786 is not appropriate (e.g. pentium4 in gcc way). 2012: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1153414 Or let's keep ancient. After all there might be 2 or 3 PLD users not subscribed to pld-devel, one of them might still use 32-bit AMD. -- Tomasz Pala <go...@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