Excerpts from Ware, Ryan R's message of Fri Aug 13 23:20:18 +0100 2010:
> True, but the kernels you use now undoubtedly use features of the
> instruction set that are not available on older systems.  Would you like
> us to eliminate those as well?  Where is that line of, "Which subset of
> the modern IA32 processor instruction set is considered to be good
> enough?"

Given that this topic keeps coming up time and time again, my answer to where
the line is: "right now, *too high*".

That there must be a line was never discussed AFAIK (and once again, there was
no proposal to remove the SSSE3 build!), the issue is *where the line is now*.

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Robin Burchell
http://rburchell.com
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