> On 16 September 2025 at 12:34 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 17:17 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >> My apologies, I did the diff the wrong way. This is the correct one. >> >> diff -Nru vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules >> --- vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules 2025-08-23 20:15:15.000000000 +0700 >> +++ vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules 2025-09-15 21:50:45.000000000 +0700 >> @@ -250,13 +250,10 @@ >> removeplugins += neon >> endif >> >> -# PowerPC specific optimizations (excluding powerpcspe) >> -ifeq (,$(filter-out powerpc,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))$(filter >> powerpcspe,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH))) >> -confflags += --enable-altivec >> -else >> +# PowerPC build fo e5500 with altivec disabled >> confflags += --disable-altivec >> removeplugins += altivec >> -endif >> + > > Passing --disable-altivec unconditionally would also disable it on ppc64el > which is a NAK. > > I also think we should start a survey to find out whether there is actually > a significant number of users with PowerPC machines not capable of AltiVec > as disabling it causes a significant performance hit for targets which support > it. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
There are a lot of e5500 machines (X5000/20 and X5000/40) without AltiVec support and with Debian installed. And a new e5500 board will be released soon. [1] [1] https://mirari.vitasys.nl
