path: root/debian/control

Source: isa-support
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Progress Linux Maintainers <maintainers@lists.progress-linux.org>
XSBC-Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>
XSBC-Original-Uploaders: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
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.