On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:16:36PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >2009/6/16 梁穗隆 >> >> I hear that Fedora administrator will change the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12. The default arch is i686+SSE2. >> >> In my opinion, I do not want to change it. Or only change to i686. SSE2 is not necessary. >> >> Why do I think that? Because I live in China, and I have many friends who is using Fedora. But they use their old computer to install Fedora. They are extreme Fedora fans. But their CPU does not >> support SSE2, for example Athlon XP 2500+(Barton Core) , Tualatin Pentium 3 at more than 1.2GHz, Some guys are using Dual Athlon or Pentium 3. With 1GB RAM, I think their computer have > enough performance to run Fedora 12. But If Fedora give up SSE-only CPU support, they will get away from Fedora and change to other Linux ditrubution. As I see, It is quite bad for Fedora project > and Fedora will lost a lot of users in developing countries. >> >> So I suggest that Fedora 12 change 32-bit x86 arch to i686+SSE, not i686+SSE2. >> > >Another suggestion from me: > >- Let's keep F-12 the same: ppc, ppc64, i586, x86_64 >- Since ppc and ppc64 are going to be dropped from F-13, fill in the >blank spot with i686+SSE2, i.e. F-13: i586, i686+SSE2, x86_64 > >Everyone happy? No. But that isn't the point. Someone else ask what the real benefit to moving to i686+SSE2 is. I haven't seen overwhelming evidence that a huge benefit exists. I think somone is working on gathering more data, but unless it shows massive gains (1-2% is not massive), then I don't see why we'd change anything at all. I'm sure I'm missing something here. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
