On 08/13/2010 03:31 PM, Robin Burchell wrote:
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*.
There's another line, and that one is far more important:
Nobody prevents you from adding support for a new line of hardware to
officially supported ones, if you support it.
I realize that you are disappointed in the current organizations that
have committed to supporting the current existing set of supported
hardware, but that decision was made by them and completely up to them.
Keeping this discussion going will not change anything. All you are
doing is ... discussing.
The right way to resolve the issue is to get someone, or some new
company to add support for hardware that you find is currently missing.
Hence, I totally applaud the efforts by some constructive minded people
to kick a project off to see whether this can be done by the community.
I suggest everyone directs their efforts to that project, instead of
this thread.
Auke
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