Control: tags -1 -patch Looking again at the code it seems my patch is actually wrong, and wonder whether WTF_CPU_UNKNOWN might be the correct approach.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:23:41PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > Building with SSE2 is not a decision made by the Debian maintainers. > Upstream WebKit dropped support for non-SSE2 processors and the code > assumes that SSE2 is always available: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194853 "as part of Igalia's work on 32bit support" "there were no negative comments" Someone should have told upstream at Igalia that non-SSE is supported by the Debian i386 port. > As far as I'm aware this is also happening with other browsers, > e.g. Chromium dropped support 5 years ago: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763290 IMHO this should be a reason for dropping i386 from the chromium architecture list. > And so did Firefox: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported The Debian maintainers have patched both Rust and Firefox to make them work on non-SSE i386 despite upstream no longer supporting it. There were plenty of bug reports when an SSE-using Firefox recently slipped through - and in general based on the numbers of bugs submitted non-SSE i386 has more users than half our release architectures combined. And Firefox is only a browser, the prospect that various parts of the default desktop might be crashing on supported hardware is not nice. > Berto cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
