Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 08:08:59PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Well, it is very sad we aren't release anymore, IMHO, although a fact.
> Yet i think it is wrong raising the bar and excluding many CPUs just because
> it makes things easier.
> powerpc was (and probably still is) a quite popular debian port and I know
> of many who run those coloured iMacs with Debian!
>
> There are also other non-Mac machines. E.g. I am pretty sure the Linkbook
> doesn't have altivec and there were a couple of other similar small netbooks
> which sadly did not get popular compared to ARM.
This is a current in production machine:
http://www.amigaos.net/hardware/133/amigaone-x5000
No altivec. Not an old CPU.
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Len Sorensen
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