On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:25:48PM +0100, Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public wrote: > I want to clarify what I am proposing. > > I would not be an entirely new architecture in the sense of i686, CPU > extensions are not different architectures and shouldn't be treated as > such. > > What I would for us to do is to create a x86-64-axv2, etc. that would > complement x86-64. We would not add it as a target for all packages, > just for the ones that make sense. > > For this pacman would have to support architecture priority. We could > have something like this: > > Architecture = x86-64-axv2 x86-64
Couldn't this be as simple as having a package with avx2 (or whatever) extensions compiled in in a separate repository that takes precedence in pacman.conf? Thanks, -Santiago
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