<span>Hi Andreas, </span><div><br></div><div>Such a flag doesn't exist yet but we will provide it quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Tung</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 10:03 Andreas Tille <<a href="mailto:tille@debian.org" target="_blank">tille@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Tung,<br>
<br>
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 08:43:03AM +0000, Tung Nguyen wrote:<br>
> Then we will provide a compiler flag to remove the SSE requirement. We also<br>
> have non-sse code for the same functions, so this should be easy.<br>
<br>
Sounds good. Am I understand you correctly that this is possible even<br>
right now? If so, what exact flags do I need to use?<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Andreas.<br>
<br>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 22:02 Andreas Tille <<a href="mailto:tille@debian.org" target="_blank">tille@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:<br>
> > > Hi all,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 19:20 +0000, Tung Nguyen wrote:<br>
> > > > Maybe we will provide a flag to disable the SSE instructions<br>
> > > > completely for use on i386. However, if the patch from Gert works<br>
> > > > well then it would be the best solution.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > The patch only provides an SSE2 code path for that one SSE3 instruction<br>
> > > that was forced in the code, so it does not really help to get the code<br>
> > > compile for the the lowest spec i386 hardware supported by Debian.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Providing a code path without any SSE could also be interesting if you<br>
> > > think of getting the code ported to other architectures (ARM, PowerPC,<br>
> > > ...).<br>
> ><br>
> > If you could really come up without any requirement for SSE this would<br>
> > be great since the goal of Debian is to support all those architectures<br>
> > if possible.<br>
> ><br>
> > If you could confirm this attempt I might go for an amd64 package<br>
> > exclusively for the moment and wide the number of architectures later<br>
> > in a clean way.<br>
> ><br>
> > Kind regards<br>
> ><br>
> > Andreas.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
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> ><br>
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