Source: isa-support Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Progress Linux Maintainers XSBC-Uploaders: Daniel Baumann XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Bastien Roucariès XSBC-Original-Uploaders: Gioele Barabucci Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), po-debconf Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Rules-Requires-Root: no Vcs-Browser: https://git.progress-linux.org/packages/fuchur-backports/isa-support Vcs-Git: https://git.progress-linux.org/packages/fuchur-backports/isa-support XSBC-Original-Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isa-support XSBC-Original-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isa-support.git Package: isa-support Multi-Arch: same Architecture: any-i386 any-i386 any-amd64 armel armel armhf armhf powerpc Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: CPU feature checking - common back-end The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This package provides the feature-probing infrastructure. To assert a CPU requirement, other packages can pre-depend on one of the individual feature-specific packages: . sse2-support, sse3-support, sse4.2-support, altivec-support, neon-support, armv6-support, armv7-support, armv8-support, vfp-support, vfpv2-support, vfpv3-support Package: sse2-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: any-i386 Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require SSE2 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for SSE2 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set extension. . SSE2 was an incremental upgrade to SSE intended to fully replace the earlier MMX instruction set. It is available on processors from Pentium 4 onward, including all 64-bit capable ones, but not on Pentium 3, Athlon XP, Via C3, Quark, or older processors. Package: sse3-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require SSE3 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for SSE3 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set extension. . SSE3, also called PNI (Prescott New Instructions), is an incremental upgrade to SSE2, adding a handful of new operations useful for processing media. It is available on almost any 64-bit-capable processor except for some early AMD models (Sledgehammer and Clawhammer), but is not available on most 32-bit-only hardware. Package: sse4.1-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require SSE4.1 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for SSE4.1 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set extension. . SSE4.1 added a dot product instruction and additional integer instructions. It is available on Intel processors since Penryn (circa 2008), but notably not on anything AMD until the Bulldozer (15h, in 2011) and Jaguar (16h, in 2013) families. Package: sse4.2-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require SSE4.2 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for SSE4.2 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . SSE4.2 added string and text processing instructions that perform character searches and comparison on two operands of 16 bytes at a time. It is available on Intel processors since Nehalem (circa 2008), but notably not on anything AMD until the Bulldozer (15h, in 2011) and Jaguar (16h, in 2013) families. Package: altivec-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: powerpc Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require altivec The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for altivec and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . AltiVec is a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction set. It is a standard part of the Power ISA v.2.03 specification. Package: neon-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armhf Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require neon The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for neon and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for Neon and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . Neon, also known as MPE (Media Processing Engine) or Advanced SIMD, is a combined 64- and 128-bit SIMD instruction set that provides standardised acceleration for media and signal processing applications. It is available on the vast majority of armhf devices but not guaranteed before the 64-bit capable ARMv8. Package: armv6-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require ARMv6 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for ARMv6 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . The ARMv6 architecture (not to be confused with product family ARM6) uses physically addressed cache, solving many cache aliasing problems and reducing context switch overhead. Unaligned and mixed-endian data access is supported. This architecture includes the first version of Thumb technology. . This feature is not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is available for newer armel machines in the ARM11 product family, including ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S, ARM1176JZ(F)-S, ARM1136EJ(F)-S, and ARM11MPCore processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi model 1 and Raspberry Pi Zero. Package: armv6k-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require ARMv6K The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for ARMv6K and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . ARMv6k is a subarchitecture of ARMV6 adding Symmetric MultiProcessing and Thread Local Storage instruction sets. It is not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is available for newer armel machines in the ARM11 product family; boards include the Raspberry Pi model 1 and Raspberry Pi Zero. Package: armv7-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require ARMv7 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for ARMv7 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . ARMv7 (not to be confused with product family ARM7) includes Thumb-2 technology, adding 32-bit instructions into compressed Thumb mode. It is not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is available for newer armel machines (including CPUs that support armhf) since the Cortex-A product family, including Cortex-A5, -A7, -A8, -A9, -A12, -A15, and -A17 processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi 2. Package: armv8-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel armhf Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require ARMv8 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for ARMv8 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . ARMv8 (not to be confused with product family ARM8) introduced a large number of ISA enhancements. It is not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is available for newer armel machines (including CPUs that support armhf) since the Cortex-A product family, including Cortex-A32, as well as all arm64 processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. Package: vfp-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require VFP The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for VFP and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE 754-1985. Package: vfpv2-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require VFPv2 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for VFPv2 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE 754-1985. . VFPv2 has 16 64-bit FPU registers. It is available for some ARMv5 and all ARMv6 cores. Package: vfpv3-support Multi-Arch: foreign Architecture: armel Pre-Depends: isa-support (= ${binary:Version}) Description: CPU feature checking - require VFPv3 The packages in the isa-support family probe for microprocessor Instruction Set Architecture features such as SSE3. By refusing to install on machines lacking a required feature, they allow ISA requirements to be handled in terms of package dependencies. . This is a mostly dummy package which checks for VFPv3 and refuses to install on unsupported hardware. . VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE 754-1985. . VFPv3 has 32 64-bit FPU registers as standard, adds VCVT instructions to convert between scalar, float, and double, and adds immediate mode to VMOV, allowing constants to be loaded into FPU registers. It is available on most Cortex-A8 and -A9 ARMv7 processors.