On 28/09/2022 00.34, Mathias Homann wrote:
How about this, let the "vanilla" Alp still run on all x86-64 levels, and if someone actually has a workload that would really benefit from the more optimized binaries, have them add another repository and run zypper dup. Could even be done during install.
In principle yes, but then you need to QA both of them and if only one of them fails, you either have different timelines of updates or you hold up both. If we had a kernel-v1 rpm and 32bit core userland (that does not need
3GB RAM), then there could be different containers for workload.
OTOH the last real 32-bit-only hardware I saw was that Pentium-4 and my early eeepcs with slow Atom processor, so why do we keep i586 around? Probably for wine + steam + Windows games.