Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx) said: > I doubt having consistently lower FP precision is anything many users > are asking for. The few that do can usually take care of themselves. And yet you say we should push them all to x86_64, which has the same lower precision? > > - More clearly delineates our support set of targets, sticking true > > to forwards innovation, not necessarily legacy support > > If thats the case why maintain x86 at all? Because it's 58% of our userbase (source: F11 torrent stats.) > Take your answer and now apply it to why fedora should maintain > support for x86 CPUs without SSE2. Because that's significantly less of our userbase. I'd love to have harder numbers, but we're still talking about a set of CPUs that (outside of corner cases like the Geode and C3) ceased production anywhere from 4 (Athlon) to 6 (P3) to 10 (P2) years ago. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
