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Re: ARM: non-NEON ARMv7 support broken?


On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> On 25 November 2013 15:55, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we (openSUSE ARM team) have problems with glibc 2.18 on ARMv7 boards (Mirabox and Tegra 2 tablet) which are not NEON capable. We have no problem on Beagleboard xM or pandaboard wich have NEON capable SoC.
> >
> > Apparently, NEON instructions are used in glibc and lead to invalid instruction errors.
> >
> > Reverting to glibc 2.17 from previous openSUSE version fixes the problems.
> >
> > Is there anything we missed between 2.17 and 2.18?
> >
> > Should glibc detect NEON capable CPU at run time?
> 
> That sounds like:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15905

I noted in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2013-08/msg00066.html> 
that this fix seemed appropriate for 2.18 branch, but it looks like it 
didn't get pushed there.

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Joseph S. Myers
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