[Debichem-devel] Bug#834991: Bug#834991: gromacs: please disable SIMD on armhf

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Nicholas

On 22/08/2016 17:47, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> Is NEON guaranteed on Ubuntu armhf installations in general?

No, my understanding is the Linux distributions doing ARMv7 with 
hard-float agreed not to require NEON as it is an optional feature.

Ideally, GROMACS should be detecting the CPU capabilities at runtime, 
see [1].

Regards
Graham


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00438.html