Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 07:53:56 CEST Doug Newgard wrote: > This thread is split between arch-general and arch-dev-public Ohh, my bad. Did not properly read the headers. Thank You. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:50:09 +0200 Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > On Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:10:48 CEST LoneVVolf wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > > > 2001 – that's 15 years

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:10:48 CEST LoneVVolf wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > > 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad > > experiences with com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Mauro Santos via arch-general
I'm not sure enforcing sse3 or later for AMD64 hardware is the best course of action. > egrep "^model name|^flags" /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 s

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
It would probably also give more arguments/hardware in need of a retro-cpu archlinux variant/project which I'd like to see and would help out with. Which in turn might be a better alternative for my Geode as well. Just my 2¢ to this. cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
...I'm all for making arch work well for the hardware it runs well on, and I don't think expecting SSE2 is too bleeding edge wrt hardware constraints. There are other distros that work well on cpus that aren't up to par with arch's needs. I started using gentoo on my pcengines board due to already

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > For the same reason I would not complain about requiring SSE4 > > instructions for amd64. So you recommend to drop good hardware, to pollute our environment, to waste rare earth elements and things like this? [rocketmouse@archli

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-17 Thread LoneVVolf
On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad > experiences with computers, I find it hard to believe anyone has that > old PC that happens