Bug#930935: webkit2gtk: Baseline violation on i386

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: tags -1 -patch

Looking again at the code it seems my patch is actually wrong,
and wonder whether WTF_CPU_UNKNOWN might be the correct approach.

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:23:41PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> 
> Building with SSE2 is not a decision made by the Debian maintainers.
> Upstream WebKit dropped support for non-SSE2 processors and the code
> assumes that SSE2 is always available:
> 
>    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194853

"as part of Igalia's work on 32bit support"
"there were no negative comments"

Someone should have told upstream at Igalia that non-SSE is supported
by the Debian i386 port.

> As far as I'm aware this is also happening with other browsers,
> e.g. Chromium dropped support 5 years ago:
> 
>    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763290

IMHO this should be a reason for dropping i386 from the chromium
architecture list.

> And so did Firefox:
> 
>    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported

The Debian maintainers have patched both Rust and Firefox to make them 
work on non-SSE i386 despite upstream no longer supporting it.

There were plenty of bug reports when an SSE-using Firefox recently 
slipped through - and in general based on the numbers of bugs submitted 
non-SSE i386 has more users than half our release architectures combined.

And Firefox is only a browser, the prospect that various parts of the
default desktop might be crashing on supported hardware is not nice.

> Berto

cu
Adrian

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