Lubos Kocman composed on 2022-09-26 15:54 (UTC):
sorry to yet again for the thread but this time I think this time we have some really good news!
1. Community (and mostly -v2 internal infra) was heard ALP will have minimal architecture baselines set to x86_64-v2, according to DimStar Factory will adopt the change first!
Not good news at all! I have the following x86_64/amd64 CPUs currently running Leap and/or TW, most both. The following is the age and level inventory of those with v2 or better according to output from lscpu, inxi -Ca and/or /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help \| tail -n17: v4 Q1'21 Rocket Lake i5-11400 v3 Q1'17 Kaby Lake i3-7100T v2 Q1'17 Kaby Lake G4600 # no avx, no avx2 v? Q3'15 AMD Godaveri A8-8650-B # avx yes; avx2 no (dead motherboard ATM) v3 Q2'14 Haswell i4150T v2 Q1'14 AMD Kaveri A10-7850K # avx yes; avx2 no v2 Q3'13 Haswell G3220 # no avx, no avx2 ------- Total 6, 7 only if I find a suitable replacement motherboard at reasonable cost Active openSUSE hosts' CPUs with v1 & at least 2 CPU "threads" v1 Q3'13 Sempron 3000+ (single thread) v1 Q3'09 Athlon II X2 240 v1 Q2'09 Core2Duo E7600 v1 Q2'09 Core2Duo E7600 v1 Q1'09 Core2Duo E7500 v1 Q1'08 Core2Duo E8400 v1 Q1'08 Core2Duo E8400 v1 Q1'08 Core2Duo E8400 v1 Q1'08 Core2Duo E8400 v1 Q2'07 Core2Duo E4400 v1 Q2'07 Core2Duo T7700 # iMac 24" v1 Q1'07 Pentium D 935 v1 Q3'06 Pentium D 945 v1 Q3'06 Core2Duo E6700 v1 Q3'06 Core2Duo E6700 v1 Q2'06 Pentium 651 v1 Q1'06 Core2Duo E6400 v1 Q1'06 Pentium D 930 v1 Q1'06 Pentium 641 v1 Q1'05 Pentium 630 -------- Total 19, assuming I didn't forget any. If we count 7 for v2-up, that's 7 of 26 or 73% of my active 64bit PCs unable to continue with a stable + safe *openSUSE* release after 15.5 support ends in just over 2 years from now. Both my brothers, each with >2 PCs running Leap, and one sister, have no PCs supporting more than v1. Like many people, they can only afford to buy pre-owned, meaning 5 or so years old when acquired, and typically more than 15 years old when retirement anticipated. The gain from v2 vs. v1 *really* needs to be quantified before the switch is flipped. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata