On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with >> ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :) >> >> This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was made by the >> ppc64el people: >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/06/msg00015.html >> >> As you mentioned this is non-trivial to get access to a ppc64 machine >> otherwise. > > Certainly. And getting access to one of the ones that causes trouble > by not having VMX seems even harder in fact. > > I wonder if there is any easy way to scan binaries for VMX instructions > to see which ones actually need rebuilding.
Interesting. Debian BTS is full of reports from people using 586 cpu where SSE instructions makes the process crash[*]. So if anything can be done to detect that at PPC64 level it should be propagated to 586 people... 2cts [*] https://bugs.debian.org/764291
