Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>]

Hi Christian!

Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne 
> X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC 
> with AltiVec)
>
> Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit Debian based distribution 
> with a 64-bit kernel): 
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/115515624056477014971/6633402818128594658 
>
>
> Screenshot of ArcticFox on ubuntu MATE 16.04.5 LTS 32-bit PowerPC with 
> a 64-bit kernel: 
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/115515624056477014971/6633406944852828306

Those look cool and promising!

> Unfortunately it doesn't work on our AmigaOne X5000. (Freescale P5020 
> CPU 2GHz, 64-bit e5500 dual-core PowerPC SoC without AltiVec)

Does it not work? build? what happens?

> Did you compile it with G4/AltiVec compiler flags? 

Yes, I did:

export CC="gcc -flax-vector-conversions -O3 -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 
-maltivec -mabi=altivec -falign-loops=16 -falign-functions=16 
-falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
export CXX="g++ -flax-vector-conversions -fpermissive -O3 -mcpu=7450 
-mtune=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -falign-loops=16 
-falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
export LDFLAGS="-latomic"


I did not try without, I know that on Intel SSE2 is required

Riccardo