Seeing "Invalid Instruction" with Chromium

[peabee]

I have downloaded (thank you):
https://packages.wolfi.dev/os/x86_64/chromium-135.0.7049.114-r0.apk

However, when I try to run Chromium I am getting an "Invalid Instruction" error. I would be interested to know why if anyone can help. Many thanks.

My cpu is:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz

and the cpu flags (no vmx) are:
fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti dtherm

[EyeCantCU]

The E5450 is an older processor that doesn't support modern instruction sets. You'd want to rebuild Chromium with debug enabled and look at the stacktrace to narrow which one(s)

[peabee]

Thank you. The processor is 2012 "vintage" so "only" 13 years old........
BIOS Dell Inc. A11 | Date: 04/30/2012 | Type: Legacy

Is there a specification of the oldest cpu that Wolfi / Chromium should work on?
or the minimum set of cpu flags expected?

Many thanks

[xnox]

Thank you. The processor is 2012 "vintage" so "only" 13 years old........ BIOS Dell Inc. A11 | Date: 04/30/2012 | Type: Legacy

Is there a specification of the oldest cpu that Wolfi / Chromium should work on? or the minimum set of cpu flags expected?

Many thanks

Since inception, Wolfi requires CPUs that support x86-64-v2 and armv8-a+crc+crypto with at least v4.9 kernel, however this minimal baseline is not explicitly tested as our CI infrastructure does not have CPUs or VMs that are strictly that. Many applications are compiled accelerated, detected and use higher instruction sets. In general we recommend to use latest instance types in the public cloud, which can be cheaper than running old hardware.

[peabee]

Thank you. I'm pretty certain that it is the lack of vmx on the E5450 that is the problem.

Chromium does run correctly on an 11 year old Celeron:
• BIOS American Megatrends Inc. X551MA.513 | Date: 09/09/2014 | Type: Legacy
• CPU Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz (2 cores)

flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer rdrand lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch epb pti tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid tsc_adjust smep erms dtherm ida arat vnmi
vmx flags vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest