Once upon a time, Aleksandra Fedorova <alpha(a)bookwar.info> said:
The rejected change
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/x86-64_micro-architecture_update
is explicitly referenced from the current one. So yes, it is the
architecture update we are looking for.
And I would suggest to avoid calling things weird and crazy just
because you are not interested in them.
The premise of the new change request is to ignore all the issues that
led to the original change request being rejected, and just assume that
the original will be accepted in the near future.
AVX2 is not a reasonable requirement as a replacement for the current
Fedora x86_64, as there are CPUs still being made today that don't
support that. If you want to split x86_64 (along the lines of i386 vs.
i686), then building a shadow copy of the entire distribution is not a
good way forward - you need to do all the actual work required to make a
second x86_64 sub-architecture in the main x86_64 distribution. Come up
with a name, make the changes to the required packages, etc.
Otherwise, what is the point of the shadow architecture? What is the
end goal? Build it in perpetuity and just try to get people to run your
packages instead of the main distribution?
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>