Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > > A quick solution would to have this configure as a convenience, but have > a way to pass an --enable-altivec and -disable-altivec (or with/without?) > paramete

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called VMX by IBM and > VSX is a superset of Altivec (IIRC). > > G4 and G5 do not have VSX. apologies i tend to lump th

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called VMX by IBM and > > VSX

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Monday, March 1, 2021, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> --- >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> >> > Beware that VSX is

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 3:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > > wrote: > > ... > > Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho is currently working on glibc6 patches > > which reverse t