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.
Kevin Kofler