Bug#674760: CPU-specific optimizations are only enabled on Linux

Julian Taylor jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 7 14:16:20 UTC 2012


On 05/27/2012 04:43 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2012/5/27 Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:
>> does kfreebsd support avx instructions?
> 
> The version in Debian doesn't.  Currently it's only supported on
> 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE
> (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=231979).
> 
>> if not will the cpuid instruction report is as missing even if the cpu
>> has the feature?
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> It's probably better to wait...
> 

any news on which kernels wheezy will use?
I'd like to enable neon extensions for arm before the freeze and would
like to fix freebsd in the same upload.

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