On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:52:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
- Build all packages for i686 (this requires cmov)
This cuts out AMD Geode ...
and for what ...
P4 2.4Ghz Athlon 3400+ Core2Duo E6850 Atom N270
march=i686/ -1.1% +2.0% +0.9% +0.6% mtune=generic march=i586/ +0.3% -0.3% -0.2% +1.3% mtune=atom march=i686/ -1.5% +1.2% +0.5% +1.7% mtune=atom
This just doesn't look worthwhile at all.
My proposal is that we actually start to 'downgrade' x86, start compiling for baseline i386, and try to support people running Fedora on really old hardware, through projects like the Minimal Platform feature.
Rich.