[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sun Sep 26 02:53:35 CEST 2010

Le dimanche 26 septembre 2010 à 01:16 +0200, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
+> Hello
+> On dimanche 26 septembre 2010 at 00:12, Tux99 wrote :
+> > > I'm not speaking about exclusion but about including or optimizing for
+> > > arch and hardware that NOBODY will use anymore, because can't.
+> > 
+> > The optimization you are talking about (which will increase 
+> > performance by a few percentage points at most, not noticeable at all 
+> > in practice) means that the distro will be unusable for others.
+> 
+> Would it be possible to have the base system and non-graphical tools 
+> compiled for i586, and the big desktops (KDE, gnome) and multimedia 
+> applications compiled for i686 or better?
+> 
+> Would it be possible, in the (yet to be setup) build system that each 
+> package define the minimum architecture it want to support?
+> In such a system, the maintainers could decide if it is worth to provide a 
+> more optimized package or if the compatibility with older hardware should be 
+> maintained.
+
+The idea of i686 to i586 was already discussed to death in the past : 
+http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/idees/show.php?id=77
+
+Yet, no one gave real numbers in one year, nor on the previous cooker
+threads. Until there is real way to measure improvement ( and by real, I
+mean nothing related to a variation of http://greenfly.net/mes.html ), I
+think all discussion will be a little bit useless.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+