On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:52:21AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> e5500 does not have it, which means one of the modern powerpc chips
> doesn't support it.
>
> Certainly the powerpc64 port claims e5500 support, and hence does NOT
> assume altivec support.
Right. But that was something that was
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:06:17PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> The firefox package is built with AltiVec enabled and so is mplayer,
> for example. So, yes, Altivec is actively used and I would honestly
> refrain from disabling it in a performance-sensitive package like
> babl.
>
> Al
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> For the powerpc port, if G3 are still supposed to be supported, altivec
> should be disabled as they are not supporting it IIRC (longtime I didn't use
> a ppc machine).
Would it make much sense to run something like GIMP on a G3
Le 08/03/17 à 16:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
Also, I'm not sure that altivec is officially supported on any of the
ppc ports, so I'm disabling it completely, I'm putting debian-powerpc ML
in copy.
The firefox packag
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Also, I'm not sure that altivec is officially supported on any of the
> ppc ports, so I'm disabling it completely, I'm putting debian-powerpc ML
> in copy.
The firefox package is built with AltiVec enabled and so is mplayer,
for
Source: babl
Version: 0.1.18-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
According to [0], optimisation upto SSE2 can be enabled on amd64.
Also, I'm not sure that altivec is officially supported on any of the
ppc ports, so I'm disabling it completely, I'm putting debian-powerpc ML
in copy.
See attached patch.
Rega
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