On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:23:38PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It should work on the standard 32-bit PowerPC baseline which includes > AltiVec. Other systems such as PowerPC E500 had their own Debian port > anyway (powerpcspe).
32 bit powerpc does not require altivec. e300 runs it fine and sure doesn't have altivec. G3 powermac had no altivec either. A few packages (like vlc for example) are broken and assume altivec is always present. powerpcspe was for the offshoot that didn't use the normal FPU (had a signal processor instruction set instead) like the e500 (but not e500mc). -- Len Sorensen