[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add znver1 arches with 32-bit + 64-bit variants and proper CPU detection (#1035)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Wed Feb 19 14:41:41 UTC 2020


> But this one is important enough that I really want this in mainline rpm, since without it, it means regular rpm can't handle an entire distro set of packages...

This is a dangerous argument, as by this logic we're required to accept anything at all that distros come up with.

> I think it's probably something to explore on improving how we do this handling, but I think that's a greater refactor than I want to do for this particular architecture addition.

...and this argument repeats itself for each new architecture we get. Not to be taken personally, just noting. But adding more assembler detection is exactly in the opposite direction of where we want to go, which is why I'm pushing back so hard on that. Other arch families are merrily using hwcap for these sort of things, x86 should be able to follow. That's at least in the general direction of where we  want to go on the "going south" level of things.

Oh, and I'm inclined to agree with @berolinux, provided (and required) capabilities would probably be the more flexible route of looking at this all.

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