29 Mar
2020
29 Mar
'20
3:32 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:25:48PM +0100, Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public wrote:
I want to clarify what I am proposing.
I would not be an entirely new architecture in the sense of i686, CPU extensions are not different architectures and shouldn't be treated as such.
What I would for us to do is to create a x86-64-axv2, etc. that would complement x86-64. We would not add it as a target for all packages, just for the ones that make sense.
For this pacman would have to support architecture priority. We could have something like this:
Architecture = x86-64-axv2 x86-64
Couldn't this be as simple as having a package with avx2 (or whatever) extensions compiled in in a separate repository that takes precedence in pacman.conf? Thanks, -Santiago