[FFmpeg-devel] Anyone needs HW or other things that require money, please open a ticket on trac

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:17 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/05/14 3:05 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Christophe Gisquet <christophe.gisquet <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I added only one:
> >> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3635#ticket
> >
> > Do you really believe that adding a SSE-only
> > fate target helps a user? I have such hardware
> > and it is probably not very difficult to get it,
> > but we neither have arm64 nor qnx targets (and
> > both *are* used) and I am not convinced we
> > cover Android (not even to some degree afaict).
> >
> > Carl Eugen
>
> Hendrik found out about the error fixed in
> fc7e02f0ff345d5331b7c78f2400668d2c79a8b0
> because an user with a pre-SSE2 CPU reported it.
> Having a fate system with an Athlon XP or a Pentium 3 would make finding
> these bugs
> faster and easier.
>
> I agree however that it's not a priority compared to other things that are
> also
> missing, like XOP/FMA4, FMA3 and AVX2 capable CPUs.


Yeah, let's get all devs an avx2-capable laptop. I'd love a new macbook pro
:)

Ronald