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Subject: Re: ARM: non-NEON ARMv7 support broken?
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Le 25/11/2013 11:29, Siddhesh Poyarekar a écrit :
> 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

Thanks a lot!

Will try this patch.


Guillaume

>
> Siddhesh