[MPlayer-dev-eng] Cross-compiling MPlayer for the SH4 Hitashi processor

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 21:24, Chris Roccati wrote:
> 
> On 27 Jul 2005, at 11:45 , Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >IIRC the SH4 is similar to ARM, right?  There was a patch that  
> >provided an
> >ARM port of MPlayer floating around, search the archives.
> 
> Not really: The SH4 is a somewhat 68000 inspired RISC processor.

Well, as long as they have GCC there, it should be able to compile
at least the C versions of all routines. Assembly versions will
require some porting. Here's an idea: hire one or two of MPlayer
developers to do the porting and donate some hardware. ;)

Regards,
R.

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