I agree with Andreas here. greetings tpowa
2016-09-20 19:38 GMT+02:00 Andreas Radke <andy...@archlinux.org>: > Am Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:30:35 +0200 > schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <s...@lutzhaase.com>: > > > This would probably be a good time to get a fully automated building > > setup going. We certainly have the hardware for it now. > > +1 > > > >> Another option could be to keep i686 and x86_64 as is, and > > >> introduce new architectures with automatically built optimised > > >> packages for i686 + SSE2 or SSE3, and for x86_64 + SSE4.2 or AVX. > > >> This is something similar to your option #4, but keeps the > > >> compatibility with all existing systems. > > > > > > Yes! > > If we want to limit our offer to two binary architectures I'm for > x86_64 maybe with SSE3 enabled (kicks out oldest Athlon XPs) and keep > i686 with least features needed for full compatibility. I could even > live with i586 for fallback. Though I'd prefer to > fully drop 32bit and rather leave it up to the community if they want > to keep it alive any longer. > > -Andy > -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org