Re: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 07:41:02PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:28 PM, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> > We can't use the neon option because no arm port of debian gaurantees that
> > neon will be available. So I belive until the no-fpu options are made
> > compatible with audacious and/or some form of runtime detection is
> > implemeted (either using ld.so.hwcaps to load different versions of the
> > library) we need to keep using --with-generic-fpu on all our arm ports.

Thanks Peter for explaining, this was how I ended up the suggestion
in the bug.

> I see. In that case, I'll have to leave the package as it until
> something along those lines is implemented.

Yes. The ideal solution is for the upstream to implement cpu runtime
detection that:

1) uses neon if it is available
2) falls back to fixed point if app requested 16-bit playback
3) finally falls back to generic fpu code if neither of above applies

Any packaging level workaround is going to be suboptimal for someone.

Riku