Use getauxval on Linux if available. --- SDL2-2.0.22/src/cpuinfo/SDL_cpuinfo.c.old 2022-01-08 02:29:52.000000000 +0000 +++ SDL2-2.0.22/src/cpuinfo/SDL_cpuinfo.c 2025-04-27 18:58:12.097867624 +0000 @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ #define CPU_HAS_AVX512F (1 << 12) #define CPU_HAS_ARM_SIMD (1 << 13) -#if SDL_ALTIVEC_BLITTERS && HAVE_SETJMP && !__MACOSX__ && !__OpenBSD__ && !__FreeBSD__ +#if SDL_ALTIVEC_BLITTERS && HAVE_SETJMP && !__MACOSX__ && !__OpenBSD__ && !__FreeBSD__ && !__linux__ /* This is the brute force way of detecting instruction sets... the idea is borrowed from the libmpeg2 library - thanks! */ @@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ elf_aux_info(AT_HWCAP, &cpufeatures, sizeof(cpufeatures)); altivec = cpufeatures & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC; return altivec; +#elif defined(__linux__) && defined(__powerpc__) && HAVE_GETAUXVAL + altivec = getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC; #elif SDL_ALTIVEC_BLITTERS && HAVE_SETJMP void (*handler) (int sig); handler = signal(SIGILL, illegal_instruction);