[MPlayer-dev-eng] Compiling on C3-2 Nehemiah

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:28:57PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:36:17PM +0200, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > > Thijs Vermeir wrote:
> > > >Yes, this one work's.
> > > 
> > > anybody, ok to commit and drop sse => mmx2 implication?
> > 
> > It seems to me that SSE is just another name for MMX2.
> 
> no.
> actually mmx2 is a subset of the instruction set advertised as sse.
> (so cpus with sse support also support mmx2, but there exists some
> AMD cpu (k6-3?) supporting mmx2 but not sse (they support 3dnowext instead))

I can confirm the latter.  My K6-III supports 3dnowext (like Athlons do),
while a common K6-2 does not.

Diego