Adrian, > On 16 September 2025 at 04:04 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Christian, > >> On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 15:03 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: >> >> There are a lot of e5500 machines (X5000/20 and X5000/40) >> without AltiVec support and with Debian installed. > > I assume that these machines run the ppc64 port, not the 32-bit powerpc port, > aren't they?
They run the 32-bit powerpc port. We had issues with ppc64 distributions. > > And I'm aware that these machines exist and certainly people are welcome to > run Debian on > these. The question in the end is just how large is that userbase and does it > justify > reducing the performance for the large number of Apple PowerMacs. > > An alternative would certainly be to create a sepate AltiVec-variant of the > packages > in question. At least mplayer does support runtime detection of hardware > capabilities, > as far as I know, Ubuntu had separate AltiVec variant of packages. Cheers, Christian
