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Re:Architecture Variants in Ubuntu by justahuman74 on Friday October 31, 2025 @02:29PM (#45775150)
If this goes well - will they do v4 as well?
Re:Architecture Variants in Ubuntu by jnsgruk on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:55PM (#45776029)
Maybe - likely we’ll trade-off the added build/test/storage cost of maintaining each variant - so you might not see amd64v4, but possibly amd64v5 depending on how impactful they turn out to be.

The same will apply to different arm64 or riscv64 variants.

Re:Architecture Variants in Ubuntu by mwhudson on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:34AM (#45780114)
Probably not v4 unless AVX512 becomes more ubiquitous than it looks like it will. But yeah, I don't expect this to be the only variant ever.