On Sat, Nov 23, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 11:29:04PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:14:42PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: >> > B) bump the i386 baseline in Debian to require SSE2, and stop disabling >> > SSE2 there in rustc >> >> As suggested by Chris, and a popular opinion/request in general. >> >> -- >> WBR, wRAR > > Considering that for Trixie we won't have an i386 installer, particularly: > it seems evident to me that as more software depends on Rust, less of it > will be usable on i386 (and possibly something like armhf in due course.) > This whether or not we rebase the hardware requirements for an architecture.
There's a big difference between - some software doesn't build on i386 anymore (cause of memory/.. constraints) - all Rust software is potentially subtly broken on i386 The former won't go away by raising the baseline, the latter would..
