On 8/13/10 2:53 PM, "Robin Burchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi, > >Excerpts from Jean-Christian de Rivaz's message of Fri Aug 13 21:33:18 >+0100 2010: >> > Agreed, it didn't have much to do about SSE3, but when the accelerated >> > graphics portion takes over, _that_ is the part it shows up. >> >> Again, you failed to list a single Meego package that will not support >>a >> non SSSE3 machine by design. Others kind of accelerated graphics >> optimization exists aside of the SSSE3 set. > >I think all of this is on a bit of a tangent. Nobody in this discussion >(as >far as I know?) has advocated that doing away with an ssse3-optimised >build >would be a step forward. > >Going around in circles over what benefits ssse3 does and doesn't provide >isn't >helping this debate I think, because at the end of the day, if Intel want >this, >then they're more than capable of making it happen. > >As I understood it, The argument is that an additional, non-optimised >build >should be introduced, so that those using AMD processors (and yes, >slightly >older Intel processors) can also benefit and use/test/develop MeeGo. > ><reasoning> >This is especially important in an application developer context: if an >application developer can't use MeeGo, and the competition Just >Works(tm), then >they aren't going to shell out £300 or whatever other "insignificant" >amounts >might be required to get new hardware: they'll use the competition. > >Given that MeeGo is arriving a bit late to this game, I think this is >something that can be ill-afforded, personally: issues like this aren't >going to help us gain developer mindshare. At all. ></reasoning> There's nothing wrong with the reasoning, but the question comes (as Greg KH brought up) is who supports this. Adding a new build for older hardware is far from free. Who's infrastructure does the release build? Who's infrastructure does daily builds? (Building QT alone right now takes 4+ hours in OBS.) Who is going to put forth the validation resources for that build? Who is going to triage the bugs that come in for that build? Who is going to fix the bugs that come in for that build? Those are only the questions that came to mind before I had to pause and think my next sentence. There are many issues with adding another build; the vast majority of which are currently un-scoped and only the least significant (changing the build configuration) has been spoken for. Getting an additional build out in the field is far from a small effort. Ryan
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