[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

Jerry Vonau me at jvonau.ca
Wed Feb 25 17:20:02 EST 2015



> On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:20:19PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but
> > since Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being
> > compiled with -mtune=atom which would use sse. This causes problems
> > for some parts of sugar now that java is being used more and the
> > XO-1 lacks sse.  Fixing one package that uses sse might fix one
> > issue but this is really a distro wide setting and other issues may
> > float to the top in other areas.
>
> Thanks, wasn't aware -mtune=atom was being used upstream.  It explains
> a lot.  First build after Fedora 11 was 11.2.0 (os874) using Fedora
> 14.  So if we rebuild everything there may be an improvement?  That's
> probably something that can be set running as a test.
>

Wouldn't all the rpms used need to be recompiled to ensure mtune is set to
match throughout the distro?

Tall order IMHO, good luck

Jerry


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