On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 02:06, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Considering that SSE2 was introduced by Intel in 2001 and AMD caught up
> with it in 2003, I'd be +1 (with my FESCo hat on) to requiring SSE2,
> regardless of whether the above change is accepted.
If you require SSE2, you limit the usefulness of the i686 kernel to
basically just a single generation of CPUs, the next generation introduced
x86_64.
Right. It probably makes sense to abandon i686 kernels altogether,
then.
Regards,
Dominik
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