Re: [Bug 664431] Re: Qt on armel is built with NEON by default

2011-04-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
No backport is contemplated. Backporting Qt breaks too many applications. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qt4-x11 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664431 Title: Qt on armel is built with NEON by default -- kubun

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 14:24 + schrieb Scott Kitterman: > I understand it's a regression for some hardware from Lucid. This SRU is a > regression for a different set of hardware. That's mitigated by the PPA > packages that are being provided, but I think it's a reasonably novel > int

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
I understand it's a regression for some hardware from Lucid. This SRU is a regression for a different set of hardware. That's mitigated by the PPA packages that are being provided, but I think it's a reasonably novel interpretation of our SRU policy to tell users that had reasonably working h

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Ricardo Salveti
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > This is going to hurt users of neon capable systems (which is almost > everyone). I don't think this SRU is consistent with Ubuntu policy. It is going to hurt users of neon capable systems, and it's a post release regression, that's why w

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Ricardo Salveti
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> There are multiple ways to deal with the speed regression, in a second step: >> a) we could arrange for an armel PPA with a Qt rebuilt with NEON (this is >> true of any package BTW); this requires special permission, and ongoing >> maint

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Oliver Grawert
> There are multiple ways to deal with the speed regression, in a second step: > a) we could arrange for an armel PPA with a Qt rebuilt with NEON (this is > true of any package BTW); this requires special permission, and ongoing > maintenance, but Qt isn't updated frequently in stable releases.

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Scott Kitterman [2010-11-30 13:15 -]: > I don't think this SRU is consistent with Ubuntu policy. I accepted it under the premise that it is a regression from lucid (read: all Qt applications crash right away with a SIGILL). It happens on a dove board I have laying around, but I don't know how

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
This is going to hurt users of neon capable systems (which is almost everyone). I don't think this SRU is consistent with Ubuntu policy. -- QT on armel is built with NEON by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-20 Thread Ricardo Salveti
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > I'll make a public PPA available with the neon compatible Qt, so people > can continue using the released version with neon accelerated pieces. Qt PPA with NEON enabled: https://launchpad.net/~rsalveti/+archive/qt- neon Please test and le

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Terça-feira 09 Novembro 2010, às 10:27:16, você escreveu: > See the -mfpu=neon there. > > I think I see the problem. It's upstream. Upstream report created: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15150 -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com Senior Product Manager - Nokia,

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Segunda-feira 08 Novembro 2010, às 19:40:34, você escreveu: > One example: > g++ -c -include .pch/release-shared/QtCore -g -O2 > -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -mfpu=neon -O2 -fvisibility=hidden > -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall -W -D_RE

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-08 Thread Ricardo Salveti
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Thiago Macieira <664...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Em Segunda-feira 08 Novembro 2010, às 16:50:52, você escreveu: >> testing the packages from ricardos PPA on a non NEON architecture >> results in a SIGILL again :( > > Can you post a backtrace? It would be useful i

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-11-08 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Segunda-feira 08 Novembro 2010, às 16:50:52, você escreveu: > testing the packages from ricardos PPA on a non NEON architecture > results in a SIGILL again :( Can you post a backtrace? It would be useful if the build used -fno-inline, or this will get a bit tricky to track down. Please also v

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 29 de October de 2010 07:22:28 you wrote: > if i read that code right it enforces NEON use if it cant open > /proc/self/auxv ... sorry, but thats not acceptable, it should use a > conservative default instead, can that be changed ? Yes, I think it's a good idea. -- Thiago Macieira - th

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 28 de October de 2010 07:55:34 you wrote: > I currently can't get the git code (download at 8k/s), so I checked > the 4.7.0 release tarball and this commit doesn't seems to be > included: > """ > $ vim qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0/src/corelib/tools/qsimd.cpp > --- > #elif defined

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-28 Thread Ricardo Salveti
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > This is the actual commit that introduces runtime verification of processor > features on ARM: >  http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/5070c3ae331faf18f6997535356853cc61ef0ad7 > > It was introduced before Qt 4.7.0rc1 so the Ubuntu build sh

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-27 Thread Matthias Klose
On 27.10.2010 01:58, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > "Steve Langasek" wrote: > >> it is a performance regression on some hardware, in exchange for >> correcting a regression in basic functionality of the package on other >> supported hardware. In the absence of other solutions, I think this is >> pref

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Steve Langasek" wrote: >it is a performance regression on some hardware, in exchange for >correcting a regression in basic functionality of the package on other >supported hardware. In the absence of other solutions, I think this is >preferable over the status quo. Do you disagree? I believe

Re: [Bug 664431] Re: QT on armel is built with NEON by default

2010-10-26 Thread Scott Kitterman
My understanding is it's fixed in 4.7.1 so it should be manageable for someone to dig the proper fix out of Qt got. -- QT on armel is built with NEON by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed