2010/9/20 Olivier FAURAX < [email protected] >
>>Le 20/09/2010 21:14, Florian Hubold a écrit : >> >>> AFAIK mandriva packages are not optimized/built for i686 >>> (anything above Pentium Pro) but for i586. And i suppose >>> that's not gonna change. >> >>If I remember well, the long i586/i686 debate on cooker has been >>terminated with 2 facts : there are no massive improvements on software >>X (I don't remember which one) and we have to keep compatibility with >>some netbooks (OEM with mandriva). >> >>If mageia doesn't target these netbooks and if you can show real >>improvement, I think this can be discussed. >> >>Have a nice day >> >> > >Well, since we are *not* that linked to Mandriva, we could avoid this problem >by producing a netbook >edition if needed. Why restricting our work to >i586/x86-64? > >For some programs, there is a significant boost in using sse/sse2 (for >instance the mlt library, povray >rendering, etc). > >I've enabled them explicitly in mandriva some time ago in the x86-64 build, >and it should be the >default there. If some arch do not comply to the "sse2" >demand, then we can discuss this on a "specific >basis, but not limit everyone >on this... > >Stef Wikipedia says that X86_64 include SSE/SSE2. All the new processors are 64 bits. So I don't think it is necessary to change i586 to i686. 32 bits platform will die soon. Also it is more important to keep more compatibility for 32 bits. -- Patrice BRUNELLE _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
