Hello Simon, On Fri, 2025-10-31 at 21:31 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> At the moment, powerpc and sparc64 are listed in LLVM_ARCHS in mesa's > debian/rules, indicating that they are believed to have working > LLVM-related features. If that's no longer true then mesa seems like the > place to address it. They are supported by LLVM but they don't have full JIT support at the moment as described in [1]. > It's unfortunate that Mesa doesn't currently have build-time tests that > detect whether its software renderer works on a particular architecture, > resulting in a non-functional llvmpipe being detected further down the > dependency stack when packages like GTK and libadwaita run their test > suites. Adding a smoke-test to mesa, so that it fails to build if > llvmpipe is enabled-but-broken, would probably also be useful. Yeah, I agree. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/20 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
