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. Greetings, Christian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
