On 07/12/2017 12:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 12.07.2017 um 12:04 schrieb Christian Dersch:
> 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.
you know how old SSE2 is?
they pretty sure support it
Yes they do, I wanted to state that we're not talking about "just a
single generation of CPUs" because x86_64 came.