It's not only older processors that dont have altivec, notably the amcc 440 and 460 and the processor series in the amiga 5000 - the Freescale P5020 and so on
On Mon, 12 May 2025, 07:12 Dave Vasilevsky, <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: libjemalloc2 > Version: 5.3.0-3 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > User: [email protected] > Usertags: powerpc > > This package's rules file explicitly enables Altivec on powerpc, but > many powerpc machines use G3 or earlier processors that don't support > Altivec. > > This results in a SIGILL when packages linking against jemalloc are run on > those > machines. Eg: on an iBook G3 running tmux, I get a SIGILL on a 'vxor' > instruction. > > Debian policy has traditionally been to support baseline CPUs when it's at > all > possible, so this package should disable Altivec on 32-bit powerpc. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: trixie/sid > APT prefers unreleased > APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: powerpc (ppc) > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-powerpc (UP) > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_CA:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages libjemalloc2 depends on: > ii libc6 2.41-7 > ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 > ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19 > > libjemalloc2 recommends no packages. > > libjemalloc2 suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > >
