On Wednesday, June 19, 2024, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < domi...@greysector.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 June 2024 at 10:39, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > On 19/06/2024 09:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > If Fedora cares > > > > about optimal performance it should just declare we're going to stop > > > > being held back by compat with ancient hardware and use -v2 baseline > > > > for everything, but obviously that's been rejected previously. > > > > > > Maybe it's a good time for the Fedora 41 System-Wide change proposal? > > > Switching to AVX2 will give significant performance boost for many > > > applications. > > > > > > > Last time, the approach was to do the RHEL approach (ie. lie to RPM > > about the architecture level we support). > > > > Two things have changed since then: > > > > * I suspect more of the hardware that don't support -v2 have failed > > out of use naturally > > * RPM now lets us "tell the truth" about what x86_64 sublevel we expect > > > > If we're now starting to have software that *requires* x86_64-v2, then > > we should visit this with that idea in mind. > > I still have two critical machines that are v1 (old Intel Atom CPUs). > They are my local routers/NAS servers (primary and secondary). One is > even pre-UEFI. They still work fine and do their job great. I don't > mind if some applications I couldn't run on them anyway start requiring > v2, but having the whole distro switch to v2 will prevent me from > running Fedora on these two. Yes but at some point we need to do the cut and not being held back by old / ancient hardware forever.
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