On 09.10.22 00:42, Stefan Brüns wrote:
And IBM is a partner of SUSE, and there is likely a lot of money involved to keep these platforms supported.
So are intel and AMD, and I can just guess what reasons lead to the specific selection of features for "x86_64 archtitecture level v2" that -- so conveniently -- finally makes those old machines that do not have sse4.2 obsolete ;-) Remember, that architecture level is not something that was designed in from the beginning, it was invented after the fact by SUSE, RedHat, intel and AMD. IF there were pure technical reasons for the specific feature set, there certainly would be convincing benchmark results, wouldn't there? -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman