On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:17 PM Carsten Jacobi <[email protected]> wrote: > > For all who still want to run Debian 64bit on a G5, the newest > libnss3-Package breaks some prominent applications like firefox or > thunderbird on that machine. > > The reason is that in one makefile the compiler options "-mcrypto" and > "-mvsx" were turned. Hence, there are Power-7 instructions now in > libfreeblpriv3.so:
Crypto extensions are ISA 2.07, which is POWER8. VSX is supposedly optional on ISA 2.06 with POWER7, but I don't think IBM shipped a machine without both. If you are working on POWER7, then VSX extensions are available. The odd thing about VSX (I found)... VSX provides loads and stores for vectors with 64-bit elements, but the operation on them - like vec_add and vec_sub - did not come until POWER8. Jeff
