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From: jhe2 <jhe2@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add sse flags to i686 profile
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:21:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240722122139.960C923AB2@inbox.vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gh-mailinglist-notifications-41a7ca26-5023-4802-975b-f1789d68868e-void-packages-51333@inbox.vuxu.org>

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New comment by jhe2 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/51333#issuecomment-2242824863

Comment:
> > most of the failures to boot i686 live images i see are OOMs
> 
> How many people are actually booting Void on pre-2001 hardware?

I can't tell you that, but AMD has built CPUs based on the Athlon XP (which is a 32-bit CPU with SSE1, but without SSE2) until 2006. The latest of those CPUs were sold under their budget Sempron brand.
Sometimes I run Void on vintage hardware (e.g. on Pentium III machines), not out of necessity, but more because it is fun and can be helpful to get data onto/off of the machine.

If you don't want to support such old machines, that is understandable, if a little bit unfortunate. When going that route though, I would probably drop i686 all together.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-22 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-18 19:35 [PR PATCH] " Calandracas606
2024-07-18 19:39 ` [PR REVIEW] " Calandracas606
2024-07-18 19:39 ` Calandracas606
2024-07-20  4:31 ` classabbyamp
2024-07-20 23:01 ` tornaria
2024-07-21  1:46 ` sgn
2024-07-21  1:54 ` classabbyamp
2024-07-22  9:28 ` jhe2
2024-07-22 11:01 ` leahneukirchen
2024-07-22 12:21 ` jhe2 [this message]
2024-07-22 12:41 ` leahneukirchen
2024-07-22 13:11 ` jhe2
2024-10-21  2:01 ` github-actions
2024-10-21 12:37 ` Calandracas606
2025-01-21  1:57 ` github-actions
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