[MeeGo-dev] non SSSE3 MeeGo
Robin Burchell
viroteck at viroteck.net
Fri Aug 13 15:31:14 PDT 2010
Excerpts from Ware, Ryan R's message of Fri Aug 13 23:20:18 +0100 2010:
> True, but the kernels you use now undoubtedly use features of the
> instruction set that are not available on older systems. Would you like
> us to eliminate those as well? Where is that line of, "Which subset of
> the modern IA32 processor instruction set is considered to be good
> enough?"
Given that this topic keeps coming up time and time again, my answer to where
the line is: "right now, *too high*".
That there must be a line was never discussed AFAIK (and once again, there was
no proposal to remove the SSSE3 build!), the issue is *where the line is now*.
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Robin Burchell
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