[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Quite confused by comments in configure

[Zuxy]

2005/11/13, Zuxy <zuxy.meng at gmail.com>:
> 6) iproc=686
>         # VIA C3 has SSE, but doesn't have MMX2
>         # workaround for SSE => MMX2 implication above
>         _mmx2=no
>
> I doubt very much if the above statement of C3 is correct. How can a
> CPU that supports MOVNTPS lacks the support for SFENCE? That would be
> a logical fallacy in design!
>

Besides, delete the line "_mmx2=no" actually doesn't do any harm,
since we're to check kernel support for mmx2, by really executing a
mmx2 instruction. If that should fail, _mmx2 would be disabled
effectively.

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