Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:09 AM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Patrik Mattsson wrote:
> > I would take the lowest denominator of features for CPUs of atleast 3
> > years of age considering how long some CPUs are being used in virtualized
> > environments and at a lot of different cloud-providers (I've seen 5+ year
> > old CPUs in at some smaller providers).
>
> At least 10 years!
>
> My notebook is 11 years old and still working. Here in Austria, that makes
> me look weird, but there are countries in this world where such machines are
> much more common place. See, e.g., Zamir Sun's reply about China. And there
> are even poorer countries out there.
>
> So no, 3 years are not sufficient.

I'm still getting complaints from groups when the same team bumped the
i686 compile flags, which I somehow missed the proposal, for newer
processors because their 10+ year old OLPC XO laptops can't run the
newer software.
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