On 2/28/23 00:40, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 28/02/2023 01:04, Shaun McCance wrote:
>> On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 18:23 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> # Goals
>>>
>>> The purpose of this SIG is to quantify the potential benefits of
>>> applying existing compiler technology to distribution packages,
>>> targeting more recent CPUs, and evaluating different options for how
>>> these optimizations can be maintained in a scalable way, and
>>> delivered
>>> to end users.
>>
>> Would this work fit under the charter of the existing (and largely
>> dormant) Alternative Architectures SIG?
>>
> <snip>
> The "AltArch SIG" was just created initially to bootstrap other
> architectures for CentOS 7, in comparison with i{3,6}86, x86_64 that we
> were only building/providing in the past.
> Once it was bootstrapped, it was back to Core SIG rebuilding in parallel
> packages for all these architectures but the altarch sig per se doesn't
> exist anymore ? (imho)
Other than for CentOS-7, where I still build and release packages for
teh alternative arches, I would agree.