On Monday 21 October 2013 17:56:07 Cor Blom wrote:
op 21-10-13 16:37, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar schreef:
Quoting Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>:
El 21/10/13 11:08, Per Jessen escribió:
There are a number of low-power embedded CPUs out there that don't have SSE2 for instance - AMD Geode comes to mind (because we have some of those - somewhere).
Yes, special cases.. I disagree that we should target special cases, instead I believe we should target the most common hardware out there.
The most common hardware nowadays is x86_64 and ARM I would say. This reasoning won't help anything.
Make a cost/benefit analysis: - how much effort is it to support those boards? - How often do we have to fix something particular for those boards? - What benefit do we gain by no longer supporting them? (not monetary per se.. ANY benefit counts).
so? still worthy to discuss the matter?
Good questions!
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