Retire a package from Fedora i686 (not x86_64)

Luya Tshimbalanga luya at fedoraproject.org
Sat Nov 7 04:00:54 UTC 2015


On 06/11/15 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 10:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Germano Massullo wrote:
>>> For example, SSE3 instructions set is one of the minimum
>>> requirements and
>>> 99% of 32 bit only CPUs do not support it. Only Pentium 4 >= Prescott
>>> architecture supports it.
>>
>> I think building it with SSE3 is better than excluding the architecture
>> entirely. And FYI, requiring SSE3 is not really allowed even for
>> x86_64 (you
>> are allowed to assume only SSE2), so by that argument, there is no
>> architecture left.
> ACK. Does anybody know if there are any x86_64/64bit-CPUs which do not
> support sse3?
>
> I don't see sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo of any machine I have, but I also
> don't see any runtime error/warning from darktable.
>
>> Of course, a better solution would be to fix the package to work on
>> all CPUs
>> you support.
> ACK.
>
>> But if upstream doesn't care, it's going to be a problem. :-(
> Exactly - That's the actual problem. Upstream does not care and Fedora
> seems unable to address this issue.
>
> Ralf
>
According to my system, it has SSSE3. Is it SSE3?
Taken from A10-7400P laptop.

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