Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 10:15:53PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Steve, > On 15-09-2023 21:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > > armel != armhf > Of course > > and nobody should be running armel on a NEON-capable CPU... > Not sure why you say it like that, I guess you don't meen CI purposes here. I

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, Sep 15 2023 at 03:00:05 PM -04:00:00, Andres Salomon wrote: On Fri, Sep 15 2023 at 08:30:20 PM +02:00:00, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi, On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: Any thoughts on this? Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on armel

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Steve, On 15-09-2023 21:54, Steve Langasek wrote: armel != armhf Of course and nobody should be running armel on a NEON-capable CPU... Not sure why you say it like that, I guess you don't meen CI purposes here. But anyways, it seems that also the arm64 host that runs our armel and

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 08:30:20PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Any thoughts on this? > Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on > armel ci.debian.net workers. (I'm failing to spot neon in the list of > features

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, Sep 15 2023 at 08:30:20 PM +02:00:00, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi, On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: Any thoughts on this? Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on armel ci.debian.net workers. (I'm failing to spot neon in the list of features of

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: Any thoughts on this? Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on armel ci.debian.net workers. (I'm failing to spot neon in the list of features of that machine.) Paul [1]

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Timothy Pearson
- Original Message - > From: "Paul Tagliamonte" > To: "Andres Salomon" > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, "Timothy Pearson" > , debian...@lists.debian.org > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 11:29:56 AM > Subject: Re: armhf NEON exce

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 12:18 PM Andres Salomon wrote: > So my proposal for chromium is this: > a) Enable NEON for chromium's armhf build. > b) Add a check in debian/rules for 'neon' in /proc/cpuinfo's Features: line, > and fail to build if NEON is not present. This should ensure that any

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andres" == Andres Salomon writes: Andres> Any thoughts on this? Please explicitly Cc me on replies, as Andres> I'm not subscribed to any of the lists. Makes sense to me.

armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, The latest chromium is failing to build on armhf because upstream broke non-NEON builds. While that is technically an upstream bug, I'm not sure upstream is going to care enough to even accept a patch to fix it. I understand that the baseline for the armhf architecture is to not support