On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:27 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:15:48AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Would you like: (a) Small speed hit for Opteron users, OR (b) much
> larger speed hit for EM64T users?
>
> (a), ie -mtune=nocona everywhere, seems to be the fairest option here
> for everybody since we obviously cannot make 1 build of Fedora Core for
> Opteron and 1 comletely separate build of Fedora Core for EM64T.
That sort of depends on market share. I would put a beer on almost all Fedora
64bit users being AMD users because Fedora is appealing to the technically
aware community rather than those whose choice is driven by "business
relationships" as happens in the enterprise space
However, simply due to sheer marketshare, Intel may in the future have
the most x86_64 processors out there. Where does that leave us?
Dan