Re: Bug#701561: Please test ioquake3 on PowerPC, particularly without Altivec

2014-01-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 at 14:58:34 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > What I'm more concerned about is whether the PowerPC JIT for the Quake 3 > bytecode language (code/qcommon/vm_powerpc*) emits Altivec opcodes - I > have no idea how I'd determine that. That's why I'm specifically asking > for testing wi

Re: Bug#701561: Please test ioquake3 on PowerPC, particularly without Altivec

2013-06-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On 04/06/13 15:37, thinkbr...@gmail.com wrote: > I did some tinkering with runtime detection when I was working on > getting PPC64 support under Quake II, so I'll see if I can make > something work. Maybe *ppcaltivec.so, *ppc.so, and *ppc64.so The reason I suggested that *ppc.so should be the Alt

Re: Bug#701561: Please test ioquake3 on PowerPC, particularly without Altivec

2013-06-04 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, I'm a porter of ppc64 port. Unluckyly, ppc64 buildd nodes and my machines are shifting of place, and they are offline now. (If no trouble, plobably they will revive to online on 2013-06-16.) So, this build test cannot be done now, but on ppc64 port, the packages have been tested to be built

Re: Bug#701561: Please test ioquake3 on PowerPC, particularly without Altivec

2013-06-04 Thread thinkbr...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 04/06/13 13:58, thinkbr...@gmail.com wrote: >> One thing I'd suggest is that >> altivec is enabled based on the CPU itself, and not just PPC vs PPC64. > > Sorry, I'm not going to do significant development on this myself, but > if you or a

Re: Bug#701561: Please test ioquake3 on PowerPC, particularly without Altivec

2013-06-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On 04/06/13 13:58, thinkbr...@gmail.com wrote: > One thing I'd suggest is that > altivec is enabled based on the CPU itself, and not just PPC vs PPC64. Sorry, I'm not going to do significant development on this myself, but if you or another powerpc porter want to put a patchset together, upstream