Hi,
I’m using Rocky Linux as my daily driver on various servers and desktop clients.
As far as I understand, RHEL 10.x will only support x86_64_v3 processors. Will this limitation also be true for Rocky Linux 10.x ?
I just read this article on the Alma Linux blog, and apparently their team is making efforts for making things available for x86_64_v2 in the future. Though this article only concerns EPEL and I haven’t found any information for the OS per se yet.
The official answer is that as far as the Rocky Linux team is concerned, we will follow RHEL on this, meaning that v3 is required for 10. As @tjdoyle intimates, there may be others that attempt to roll something that does not require v3 as third-parties.
It shouldn’t really cause any issues unless you are running anything older than Haswell or a pre-2015 AMD CPU.
If you are, there isn’t really anything forcing you to use Rocky 10.
But yes, it will require v3.
