Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 9:12 PM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 3/3/21 11:56 am, Filipe Laíns wrote: >> On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 11:10 +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintr

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 3/3/21 11:56 am, Filipe Laíns wrote: > On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 11:10 +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: >> On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintroduce multiple >>> architectures? >>> >>> We used to offer i686

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 11:10 +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintroduce multiple > > architectures? > > > > We used to offer i686 and x86_64. > > > > Maybe now we could o

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 8:10 PM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: >> I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintroduce multiple >> architectures? >> >> We used to offer i686 and x86_64. >> >> Maybe now we could offer x86_64, x86_64-v2,

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintroduce multiple > architectures? > > We used to offer i686 and x86_64. > > Maybe now we could offer x86_64, x86_64-v2, and x86_64-v3. Or go right > to -v4. > That is a possibility t

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 7:54 PM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 2/3/21 9:51 pm, Allan McRae wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A new RFC has been opened here: >> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/2 >> >> Summary: >> Make -march=x86_64-v2 the default for our packages. This assumes th

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 2/3/21 9:51 pm, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > A new RFC has been opened here: > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/2 > > Summary: > Make -march=x86_64-v2 the default for our packages. This assumes the > following instruction sets which are essentially available on

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 8:51 AM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi all, A new RFC has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/2 Summary: Make -march=x86_64-v2 the default for our packages. This assumes the following instruction sets which are essentially availa

[arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

2021-03-02 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
Hi all, A new RFC has been opened here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/2 Summary: Make -march=x86_64-v2 the default for our packages. This assumes the following instruction sets which are essentially available on all but the oldest AMD CPUs: CMPXCHG16B, LAHF-SAHF,

Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: Using RFCs

2021-03-02 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 3/2/21 2:37 AM, Sébastien Luttringer via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 00:19 +0100, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: >> I think this is a great step for our distro to get a nicely pre shaped >> proposals before hitting the final review and presentation phase as well >>