Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-09 Thread Geert Stappers
To: bug report 823672 So the BTS has the message below - Forwarded message from Wookey - Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 04:15:23 +0100 From: Wookey To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Christian Seiler [2016-05-07 16:14 +0200]: > On 05/07/2016 03:59 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > > I now have a better idea _why_ a sse-suport package. I do think that this sort of ISA-level checking would be best done via dpkg and package metadata, although this sse-support mechanism will

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Altivec detection on 32-bit powerpc would also be useful Probably also NEON on ARM? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 07 May 2016 at 17:15:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Good idea! The test harness is already templated, so there's no reason to > make this x86 specific. Altivec detection on 32-bit powerpc would also be useful, assuming 32-bit powerpc has a future in Debian at all. ioquake3:powerpc

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 04:14:05PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 05/07/2016 03:59 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:23:41PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> My gut feeling says that the package 'sse-support' is sabotage on > >> architecture "any". Obviously, it's

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/07/2016 03:59 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:23:41PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >> >> My gut feeling says that the package 'sse-support' is sabotage on >> architecture "any". >> > > This is from #823465 http://bugs.debian.org/823465 > > | I'm afraid there's not

Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:23:41PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > My gut feeling says that the package 'sse-support' is sabotage on > architecture "any". > This is from #823465 http://bugs.debian.org/823465 | I'm afraid there's not enough people who care about 586 enough to maintain | it.

Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Geert Stappers
> * Package name: sse-support > Upstream Author : me > Binaries: sse2-support, sse3-support, more? > Description : prevent installation on processors without required > support > This is a mostly dummy package, whose only purpose is to detect the presence > of