On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 05:56:57PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
Should I be suggesting to upstream to attempt to detect CPU before running non-available instructions, eg as part of app startup ? Can that even be done (reliably) ?
This is exactly what they should be doing, and yes it can be done reliably as many apps do this (start by looking at /proc/cpuinfo).
(I also looked at how Debian have packaged this, but they don't seem to have fixed the problem at all).
Rich.