From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75BABC37 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 10:24:08 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Am4BAH/yGUpQW+UCe2dsb2JhbACXYwEBFiIEsyOECwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,243,1241388000"; d="scan'208";a="29864209" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 25 May 2009 10:24:08 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M8VTX-0001M3-ON for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 25 May 2009 08:24:03 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 08:24:03 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 08:24:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: Ocamlopt x86-32 and SSE2 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20090511043120.976EBBC67@yquem.inria.fr> <4A09434D.3020102@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-2 (Linux) Sender: news X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocamlopt:01 le-gall:01 packagers:01 gmane:01 gmane:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 argument:02 kernel:02 tagged:02 installer:03 seems:03 debian:04 debian:04 On 12-05-2009, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 12-05-2009, Xavier Leroy wrote: >> >> Sylvain Le Gall: >> >> To finish: I'm still very interested in hearing from packagers. Does >> Debian, for example, already have some packages that are SSE2-only? >> Are these packages specially tagged so that the installer will refuse >> to install them on pre-SSE2 hardware? What's the party line? >> > > Im my opinion, Debian will probably refuse to ship a package that only > provide SSE2-only version (but I am talking from my point of view). > For those who are interested, a discussion just started about dropping pre-i686 architecture for Debian: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/47844 The first round of post seems clearly against this decision. The main argument is that many school are using old pre-i686 hardware. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall