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

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

> * 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 ${binary%%-support}.  It refuses to install on inadequate processors, thus
>  allowing specifying such a requirement as a dependency.
>

This e-mail is written with the awareness of PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and ARM64 architectures.

My gut feeling says that the package 'sse-support' is sabotage on architecture "any".

After reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions I'm even
more sure that "sse-support" is about 'there is only one true processor architecture'

I think that is wrong.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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