On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:41 +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > You are not really following what I am trying to get across. Cross > compilation > isn't the issue. The issue is that something as generic as i386 (or i686 for > rpm based distros IIRC) actually targets a lot of different types of hardware. > It can run on pretty old pentium based CPUs, but also modern > systems. A binary distributor has no way of knowing which > CPU is going to be used, ...
The distributor has one tool at his disposal, the package-manager. This will know where it lives and could (potentially) choose the right package. For Intel vector code unfortunately, the current naming system with -386 -586 and -686 packages isn't very helpful because what we really need to know is the processors mmx/sse level and wether it can deal with denormals in a civilized manner. (An army of programmers to take advantage of and verify systems we have only read about on the 'net would be handy as well, thankyou ..) -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev