Hello, On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am 27.09.22 um 17:23 schrieb Martin Schröder:
History has shown that many will object to changes affecting their beloved old laptop - but are not willing to do the least to keep it alive.
Except in this case there is nothing to be done to keep the old hardware working, the objection is to a change that arbitrarily disables support for perfectly working hardware.
You haven't really answered my question: Will the successor of Leap 15 be -v2? Currently Leap uses SLE binaries. To be fully transparent: what was decided lately: it will *not* be V3. How much code we will compile to require V2 is up in the air and also depends on the cost/benefit calculation that is currently in progress.
As mentioned, building with V2 was just recently started in one staging project of Factory.
But we do know: if we don't deprecate V1 with the new code stream, we won't do it in the next decade.
And does v1 need deprecating? If we included some more modern CPU features we could get some actual performance benefit. With v2 alone nobody provided any demostration of actual improvement. Sure, v1 hardware will probably not be very useful in 10 years but we are talking about deprecating it now. Also it is not very useful talking in terms of v1, v2, v3, v4. These are just bunch of unrelated CPU features lumped together. With Intel vs AMD and different CPu models the availablility of features varies wildly between CPU of the same vintage. And to get performance benefit in a specific case a specific CPU feature is required, not v2, v3, or v4. Thanks Michal