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 just changed recently. Because one e5500 user complained about it. > It really is something that should be runtime detected and used if > present but not required. It should. But it has been like that for ages and no one has complained so far unlike with the ppc64 port. So I really think it should stay that way. Most PowerPC machines are already underpowered, so taking away Altivec on applications where it really makes a difference would be suboptimal. 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
