Not wishing to be a dick about this, but what sort of notification is in place to stop time being wasted trying to run programs on incompatible CPUs? Obviously old processors need to be supported in base for embedded systems, but it would be nice to have a note for packages.
Is it viable to redirect/use ports with global compiler flags set to 'no SSE' or in some cases '486 compatible' I ran it on a pentium ii laptop because it was lying around and seemed like it would do the job, and a pentium ii system to verify, and because it's being used for retro gaming. I do have more modern systems. On 15/03/2016, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-03-15, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Looks like Qt autodetects at build time, we probably want to configure >> on i386 with no-avx, no-avx2, no-sse4.1, no-sse4.2, maybe no-ssse3. >> (SSE2 is probably reasonable to expect for Qt5 apps, it's present on >> Netburst, Pentium-M, Atom, C7 etc. which seems a sane cut-off point >> for heavy GUI apps). > > Well, Peter did attempt to run it on Pentium II, which doesn't have > SSE2. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
