On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 12:18 +0100, RL wrote: > .... wouldnt it be even better for chromium to detect the missing sse3 at > runtime, not at package install time Correct. It already switched to doing that, using the script. https://sources.debian.org/src/chromium/latest/debian/scripts/chromium/?hl=28#L28 The isa-support package is just one approach to the overall problem of selection of non-baseline instructions, there are several other ones: https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection In future, isa-support may provide a generic runtime solution too, similar to what chromium does, but that needs someone to work on it. On Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:44:13 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Things go wrong; this is the sort of thing you need to worry about > while juggling hardware. Mind you, maybe as an enhancement these > packages could also do some sort of (disablable) boot-time check? It is worse than that; there are now chips where different cores of the SoC provide different capabilities, so each time you run a program it might not start if you start it on the wrong core. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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