On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 11:53 AM Larry Len Rainey
Microsoft has already spoken on v3, that is why Windows 11 requires Gen 8 I3, i5 and i7 and newer.
(I think they get a kickback on new PC and Laptop sales for the requirement).
The push for raising the x86_64 baseline for RHEL and SLE came from the CPU vendors. That's what triggered the creation of the x86_64 subarch variants (-v1, -v2, -v3). From discussions I've had with people familiar with the matter, they have been pressuring their commercial Linux vendor partners to raise the baseline for a few years now. Ultimately Red Hat compromised[1] and went with x86_64-v2 and while SUSE initially was going to go -v3, I pushed back pretty hard on this and helped make the compromise for -v2 happen for ALP as well. (As an aside, Microsoft gets paid for every new PC sale in the form of a Windows license, and OEMs are incentivized to sell more because it lowers their per unit costs and gets them better deals in the future.) [1]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-li... -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!