Re: expected baseline changes for forky => proposal no more FPU and 80bits float/double on i386

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <0ceb3557e87979df54ee23c04c081717009632a7.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi,

On Fri, 2026-08-14 at 10:40 +0200, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> Now that we have as baseline SSE2 could be possible to have
> #1127352 closed and use SSE for float and double.
> 
> It will likely close a lot of problem on the i386 platform but may be done quicly.

So, SSE2 means that the minimum baseline would be a Pentium 4
for which there are probably hardly any users using the i386
port.

Not sure that such a baseline raise makes sense.

Adrian


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