Hello!
What is the general approach to porting software, which uses advanced
CPU-features (like SSE), but has no run-time detection of them?
I just added graphics/lepton, for example, which has some functions
implemented with AVX2 intrinsics -- but whether or not to use them is
determined at compile-time... The original code also required SSE4, but
I managed to patch it to lower the requirements to SSSE3.
Typically, pre-built packages target the lowest, but this particular
program will not build without at least SSSE3 available at all.
Should there be three separate packages: lepton-avx2, lepton-ssse3, and
lepton-sse4? Maybe, our package-building infrastructure should
automatically produce different packages from ports expressing such a
desire by declaring, for example:
CPUSPECIFIC= avx2 ssse3 sse4
CPUSPECIFIC_AVX2= -mavx2
CPUSPECIFIC_SSSE3= -mssse3
CPUSPECIFIC_SSE4= -msse4.1
Should I simply set NO_PACKAGE -- to avoid a situation when a prebuilt
binary will not even start for some users (such as on older Opterons)?
-mi
-mi
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