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? I'd expect the performance to be rather underwhelming. Same applies to mplayer and Firefox. Even a G4 is rather underpowered for something like GIMP. But at least, it would take advantage from Altivec. > If you are telling me altivec is OK, I guess that the flag can be removed > and the situation can be kept as before for PPC Let's put it this way: I wouldn't disable it until someone actually complains :). So, please let's just keep it the way it is. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
