On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:49 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 03:24:18PM +0100, Tom Hughes via devel wrote:
> > On 20/06/2024 15:03, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > > Honestly, I'd like to pitch that we retarget Fedora at x86_64-v3 (yes,
> > > three) and recommend creation of a Fedora "Hardware Life Extension"
> > > Remix that can provide rebuilds of (a subset of) Fedora that they want
> > > to run on ancient hardware. It could be something similar to Fedora
> > > ELN, where a subset of the main repo that might be useful on old
> > > hardware can be rebuilt (though unlike ELN, I suggest that this should
> > > be an entirely separate infrastructure not maintained by the Fedora
> > > Project). Such a project could then live or die based on willingness
> > > to maintain it and stop holding back Fedora as a whole.
> >
> > I definitely think going to v2 would be reasonable bit I tink
> > forcing v3 might be a step too far.
>
> If going to v3, compared v2....
>
> For AMD, we would loose Opteron Gen4 and Opteron Gen5 models, but
> keep EPYC/Ryzen all generations.
>
> For Intel, we would loose Denverton, IvyBridge, Nehalem,
> SandyBridge, Snowridge, Westmere, but keep Skylake,
> SapphireRapids, Icelake, Haswell, GraniteRapids, Cooperlake,
> Cascadelake, Broadwell.
>
>
> Personally I'd say v2 is the better first step, as plenty of
> those generations we'd loose are still pretty relevant, even
> if not the state of the art shipping today.
>


OK, I think I got my baselines mixed up. Sorry about that. I could
have sworn what you were describing above was the effect of moving to
-v4.
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