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Linux 4.17 Spring Cleaning To Drop Some Old CPU Architectures
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI'm talking of embedded devices, not PC or servers or high-performance stuff. The only reason an embedded device would want 64bit is because of RAM. For anything needing serious processing power they have hardware accelerators anyway.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostActually, 64-bit is very old by now as well. When will we get 128-bit? :P (and I mean true 128-bit CPU's for desktops/laptops, not for specialized systems)Last edited by pal666; 19 March 2018, 09:58 PM.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Posteach step takes twice amount of time of previous step. jump from 64bit to 128bit is as large as all jumps from 0bit to 64bit combined. so it wouldn't be soon. and just imagine size and cost of heap of 4 billions of 4gb ram sticks. probably after technological singularity
On the other hand, CPU vector instructions are already 128-1024 bit and GPU vector instructions are 1024-4096 bit, so we got your 128-bit right hereTest signature
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Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post
For what purpose? What practical application is there for a 128 bit CPU that cannot be done with a 64 bit CPU?
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Originally posted by Azrael5 View Postit's time to drop all the cpus based on 32bit architecture.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
It matters for distros like Ubuntu that ship with every driver known to mankind and every default boot flag.
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Originally posted by jpg44 View Post
Drivers should only be loaded once the hardware that needs them is detected, so including them doesnt hurt anything or slow anything down for you. But it is important for people who have hardware that needs that driver. Ubuntu tries and should try to be useful to a broad number of users on a broad number of systems, not to be a minimalistic system that cant run a GUI or wont run on anything except a small number of computers.
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Originally posted by jpg44 View Post
Drivers should only be loaded once the hardware that needs them is detected, so including them doesnt hurt anything or slow anything down for you. But it is important for people who have hardware that needs that driver. Ubuntu tries and should try to be useful to a broad number of users on a broad number of systems, not to be a minimalistic system that cant run a GUI or wont run on anything except a small number of computers.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
It matters for distros like Ubuntu that ship with every driver known to mankind and every default boot flag.
1) Drivers take up no measurable space in memory unless they are needed, because they are loaded as modules.
2) "every default boot flag" - you don't have to enable boot flags for defaults.
My goal here isn't to embarrass you. I just hope that you recognize that you are jumping to conclusions without taking the time to test your hypothesis, and then you are trying to tell others to believe you... well... that is going to result in some embarrassment... it's unavoidable.
For your own sake, I recommend finding some references backing your statements, at least until your habits improve.Last edited by linuxgeex; 23 March 2018, 03:45 PM.
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