Re: Bug#776911: gnome-shell: fails to start on i386 when [Mesa was] built with llvm-3.5
- To: Kill Your TV <killyourtv@i2pmail.org>
- Cc: intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>, mesa@packages.debian.org, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>, 776911@bugs.debian.org, 776911-submitter@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#776911: gnome-shell: fails to start on i386 when [Mesa was] built with llvm-3.5
- From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:24:59 +0000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 54FF28EB.50405@debian.org>
- In-reply-to: <20150310114817.51D16AE3EA@smtp.postman.i2p>
- References: <E1YIZet-0000ig-3p@zorro.ztk-rp.eu> <20150204154917.GA24027@perpetual.pseudorandom.co.uk> <54D4F919.2050904@ztk-rp.eu> <54D505F3.8090209@debian.org> <CANTw=MMyebjrH2WweTjiS1U75HPEb+1Y1LRDvOkwLrZwJ3K1KQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150226085404.GA19327@perpetual.pseudorandom.co.uk> <20150308200200.5E2A6AE3E1@smtp.postman.i2p> <20150309190922.A205EAE3EA@smtp.postman.i2p> <20150309210455.CCD88AE3E1@smtp.postman.i2p> <20150309223054.E82CDAE3E7@smtp.postman.i2p> <20150310081603.A81E0AE3E7@smtp.postman.i2p> <20150310114817.51D16AE3EA@smtp.postman.i2p>
On 10/03/15 11:48, Kill Your TV wrote:
> I'd wholeheartedly +1 this is the failure was only on emulated systems
> with "impossibly-doomed-to-failure" configurations, but from the
> earlier posts in this bug this problem initially affected real hardware.
Right, that's a real application problem, in gnome-shell or its
libraries. However, as far as I can see, that was on older CPUs (Pentium
III-M) that neither support nor claim to support the instruction-set
extensions used (required?) by llvmpipe, as opposed to a misconfigured
VM that claims to support extensions that it cannot?
S
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