On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Chris Adams (cmadams@hiwaay.net) said:
Removing support for still-functional hardware is a trademark of Microsoft, not Linux.
I'd also argue that doing another full rebuild of the OS for a 1% performance gain on a single architecture is not a particularly production use of resources.
The 1% comes from i586 -> i686; SSE2 would be additional on top of that. But given the vehement opposition, I can see dropping the SSE2 requirement. I'm still fairly convinced that going to i686 is the right move - we really don't support i586 as a practical matter, and even the Geode should still work with that. Furthermore, it's likely we'll have a mass rebuild for LZMA support and/or debuginfo changes, so it's no additional cost.
Great, i686 without SSE(2) seems OK to me. I even wonder why we did not go to that requirement in F11 already without the intermediate ~i586 requirement.