Re: Retire a package from Fedora i686 (not x86_64)

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On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 04:29:48 +0100
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 

SSE3 is reported as 'pni' (Prescott New Instructions) 

> > 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
> 

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