Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2015-01-31 Thread Witold Filipczyk
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:35:28PM +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Witold Filipczyk wrote: Kernel build for non-PAE i686 is what I want. Will be there today on i686, but only for head, so no vserver. Thanks. ___ pld-devel-en

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2015-01-31 Thread Jan Rękorajski
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Witold Filipczyk wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:01:58PM +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for removal. Proposal: remove i486 from Th. Rationale: It's increasingly more problematic to get everything built

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-30 Thread Tomasz Pala
+1 to abandoning i486 in current state (keeping last packages on FTP). On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 21:48:03 +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: Specifically: Can RPM assume sse2 instructions and optimize digests/crypto to use sse2? No 32bit AMD CPU has this. So, no, you can't do it

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-30 Thread Tomasz Pala
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 20:22:01 +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: If we have i686 arch we need to support i686 CPUs, not a random subset. We don't need to do anything. SSE2 is 13 years old now (and available for 11 years in AMD), I haven't seen unsupported CPUs in years. Hardware produced in that

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-15 Thread Grzesiek
W dniu 15.12.2014 o 21:01, Jan Rękorajski pisze: TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for removal. Proposal: remove i486 from Th. Rationale: It's increasingly more problematic to get everything built on i486, some packages explicitly say no to this arch, some require hacks

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-15 Thread Witold Filipczyk
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:01:58PM +0100, Jan Rękorajski wrote: TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for removal. Proposal: remove i486 from Th. Rationale: It's increasingly more problematic to get everything built on i486, some packages explicitly say no to this arch,

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
I'm more interested in the lowest common denominator Intel architecture. Specifically: Can RPM assume sse2 instructions and optimize digests/crypto to use sse2? 73 de Jeff On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: TL;DR Future of i486 is bleak, it's a strong candidate for

Re: The future of i486 arch in Th

2014-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: I'm more interested in the lowest common denominator Intel architecture. Specifically: Can RPM assume sse2 instructions and optimize digests/crypto to use sse2? No 32bit AMD CPU has