On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 11:57 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 02:06, 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. > > Right. It probably makes sense to abandon i686 kernels altogether, > then. IIRC my first x86_64 was from 2006 [1], which means all hardware before that will not run Fedora . Thinking that we are discussing if we still should support floppy disks ... Sometimes I think we should have more balance, please consider also el6 which have EOL in November 30, 2020 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Dual-Core [2] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ Cheers, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
