On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:43:30 +0200 "Matteo F. Vescovi" <mfvesc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Control: tag -1 + upstream > > Hi! > > On 2014-10-02 at 13:54 (CEST), Daniele Forsi wrote: > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > could Blender be changed to check if it is running on a supported CPU > > and fail with a nicely informative error message? > > At [1] you can see that the former patch that used to check about the > compatibility of the CPU with Blender has been dropped since upstream > developers declared that a better (and elegant) solution was found and > that patch wasn't useful anymore. Hi, Do you have a URL to that statement? Because if they still build their x86 package inside an i386 emulator like before, that thing is not an actual bug upstream and will thus /never/ get fixed. Bye
> > > On my PC blender is terminated on startup with: > > Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. > > Well, probably the upstream approach hasn't been efficient enough to > prevent all the cases. I already got in touch with them and we'll see > how to solve this long-persecuting issue. > > Cheers. > > > [1] > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/blender.git/commit/?id=fce9104b648ad2d81fc82362eb9f377c6eb5641d > > -- > Matteo F. Vescovi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
