Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Also, I'm not sure that altivec is officially supported on any of the
> ppc ports, so I'm disabling it completely, I'm putting debian-powerpc ML
> in copy.
The firefox package is built with AltiVec enabled and so is mplayer,
for example. So, yes, Altivec is actively used and I would honestly
refrain from disabling it in a performance-sensitive package like
babl.
Altivec is disabled on powerpcspe where it's not available in the
hardware, but most machines on which people install Debian powerpc
should have Altivec.
Adrian
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