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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update
From:       Panu Matilainen <pmatilai () redhat ! com>
Date:       2019-07-30 9:18:12
Message-ID: b45a2e72-dcde-eccd-68f7-b63c4fef6d46 () redhat ! com
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On 7/22/19 9:51 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> 
> After preliminary discussions with CPU vendors, we propose AVX2 as the
> new baseline.  AVX2 support was introduced into CPUs from 2013 to
> 2015. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX2
> CPUs with AVX2].
> 

This proposal seems mostly like an experiment in disguise to find out 
whether the Fedora developers can agree on *something*, and quite 
clearly the answer is yes, at least this once we can all agree to 
disagree with the proposed change.

For the record, none of the ~10 computers at my house, including my 
current work laptop, support AVX2. Such a change would force me to move 
the entire family away from Fedora, and would be "interesting" to try 
develop rpm on, say, Debian. Would make for some catchy headlines though ;)

	- Panu -
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