On Friday, January 10, 2020 6:37:11 AM MST Chris Adams wrote: > AVX2 is not a reasonable requirement as a replacement for the current > Fedora x86_64, as there are CPUs still being made today that don't > support that. Relevant lines from /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm ida If we want to go by what's actually in use as well, instead of just new machines, I can get an even more restrictive list. Further, something not being made anymore is not reason to drop it. That makes no sense. Fedora users aren't going to toss their current, working, good machine just to find one with a processor you think is new enough. That's absurd. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
