[arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

[Allan McRae]

On 4/3/21 8:13 am, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 23:34, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
> <arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Options realistically are:
>>
>> 1) bump the baseline
>> 2) provide a second more optimized port.
> 
> 3) defer this until better tooling is available to implement (2)
> 
> Since the RFC is about bumping -march to x86_64-v2, it either gets
> accepted and my desktop computer can no longer run Arch, or the RFC
> gets rejected and another approach is proposed in the future.
> Discussing alternative implementations seems out of scope.
> 

This is the discussion period to shape the RFC into a form that is
acceptable.  If (1) is not acceptable, it can transition to (2) if
people want that approach.

Allan