Hi, > > effort, and nobody outside of Fedora cares about non-SSE2 anymore. Even > > distros that claim to support non-SSE2 hardware just ship QtWebEngine as > > SSE2 only. I haven't seen any other distro even picking up my patch, let > > alone working on it. The Fedora Chromium, V8 and Node.js packagers also do > > not care. > > I suspect Firefox may also be sse2-only, at least indirectly from Rust. > I just checked the rustc target spec for i686-unknown-linux-gnu, and by > default it's targeting "pentium4". There is an i585-unknown-linux-gnu > which targets only "pentium" though. > > But Firefox has been building with Rust on all arches for over a year > now, and apparently, nobody has noticed this in practice...
Probably modern web browsers simply don't run with reasonable performance any more on hardware that old, so nobody is doing that. Same for most/all other software requiring sse2. Most pre-sse2 hardware still in use is probably a headless machine sitting in some corner, running sshd / apache / samba / cups / whatelse, but no desktop workload. If someone wants keep 32bit fedora alive for pre-sse2 hardware I think the only reasonable thing would be to undust the i586 target, then go build software which requires sse2 as --target i686 and everything else as --target i586, i.e. basically stop the effort to patch software for non-sse2 hardware. pre-sse2 hardware would have the i586 packages available only. But I somehow doubt that even that is worth the effort ... cheers, Gerd _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4L46UR55TY3F5XBY7EGSLHVPVGRY5IT/
