On 07/12/2017 02:06 AM, 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.
Well, there is one very important CPU family which came some years
later: Intel Atom. There are still many netbooks out there and the first
Atom generations are 32 bit only afaik.
Greetings,
Christian