A commercial enterprise is dropping support for older cpu architectures in their newer OSs so they can improve the average performance of the deployed software?
Don't see how that's controversial. It's something that doesn't matter to their customers or their business.
The newest x86_64-v1 server is older than a decade now, and I'm not sure -v2 is deprecated. RockyLinux 9 is running happily on -v2 hardware downstairs.
Oh, -v2 is deprecated for RH10. Not a big deal, honestly.
From a fleet perspective, I prefer more code uses more advanced instructions on my processors. Efficiency goes up on hot code paths possibly. What's not to love?
Rocky linux is in cahoots with Oracle, do not supporting that with anything, not even with words. Go Alma linux if you need Red Hat but with different name but for love of anything good in this world, boycott everyone friendly with Ellison.
volf_|7 months ago
Don't see how that's controversial. It's something that doesn't matter to their customers or their business.
bayindirh|7 months ago
Oh, -v2 is deprecated for RH10. Not a big deal, honestly.
From a fleet perspective, I prefer more code uses more advanced instructions on my processors. Efficiency goes up on hot code paths possibly. What's not to love?
IgnaciusMonk|7 months ago
homebrewer|7 months ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/1010868/
https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-27-welcoming-almalinux-10...
tl;dr: AlmaLinux will support v2 in EL10 as a separate rebuild in the near future.
scns|7 months ago
Did you mean v3?
anthk|7 months ago