[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Wed Sep 22 17:55:19 CEST 2010

2010/9/21 Stéphane Téletchéa <steletch at gmail.com>:
+>
+> 2010/9/20 Olivier FAURAX <olivier at faurax.fr>
+>>
+>> Le 20/09/2010 21:14, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>> > AFAIK mandriva packages are not optimized/built for i686
+>> > (anything above Pentium Pro) but for i586. And i suppose
+>> > that's not gonna change.
+>>
+>> If I remember well, the long i586/i686 debate on cooker has been
+>> terminated with 2 facts : there are no massive improvements on software
+>> X (I don't remember which one) and we have to keep compatibility with
+>> some netbooks (OEM with mandriva).
+>>
+>> If mageia doesn't target these netbooks and if you can show real
+>> improvement, I think this can be discussed.
+>>
+>> Have a nice day
+>>
+>
+> Well, since we are *not*  that linked to Mandriva, we could avoid this
+> problem by producing a netbook edition if needed. Why restricting our work
+> to i586/x86-64?
+
+One more edition => more work; also compiling packages with different
+specific flags for one particular edition is much more work, I am
+thinking about package repositories/updates too.... (just my humble
+non-dev POV :)).
+
+>
+> For some programs, there is a significant boost in using sse/sse2 (for
+> instance the mlt library, povray rendering, etc).
+>
+> I've enabled them explicitly in mandriva some time ago in the x86-64 build,
+> and it should be the default there. If some arch do not comply to the "sse2"
+> demand, then we can discuss this on a "specific basis, but not limit
+> everyone on this...
+>
+> Stef
+>
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+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
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