Guillaume Gardet - 10:13 22.11.13 wrote:
> 
> Le 22/11/2013 09:55, Guillaume Gardet a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 22/11/2013 09:12, Michal Hrusecky a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> today I tried upgrading openSUSE on my tablet (Tegra2) from 12.3 to 13.1 
> >> and I
> >> ended up with invalid instruction errors just after update of glibc. My 
> >> guess
> >> is that glibc was compiled with neon support enabled. Was there any 
> >> decision to
> >> drop non-neon devices or is it simply a bug? Is it just glibc that has neon
> >> enabled or everything? I know that for 32bits we have two glibc packages, 
> >> maybe
> >> something similar would be possible for armv7?
> >>
> > AFAIK, neon should not be enabled by default, so this is a big bug. Someone 
> > else noticed this bug few days ago, on a Mirabox (Marvel SoC).
> >
> > All my ARM boards are neon capable so I cannot test. :(
> >
> > Maybe Alex, or Dirk, could help here?
> 
> Apparently, glibc is now capable of multiarch for armv7. Which mean that it 
> can auto-detect if hardware is neon capable, or not. For that, we need to 
> build glibc with multi-arch option enabled, which is not the case right now. 
> Without multiarch enabled, no tests are performed and assume that neon is 
> present.
> 
> I am building glibc with multi-arch enabled.
> Once built, could you test if it fix your problem?
> 

Sure!

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