[MPlayer-dev-eng] Do we need to check for CPU types with --enable-runtime-cpudetection?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:15:37AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 2006/12/3, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> >On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:48:44AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> >>
> >> 2006/12/3, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> >> >Patches welcome.
> >>
> >> Oldest cpu we support: i486 or i386 then?
> >
> >I don't really care.  Would MPlayer run on a 386?  Is there anything it
> >could play on such a machine?
> 
> If we set it to i486, we're guaranteed to run with bswap instruction
> available; we then can remove iproc in configure and  "#if __CPU__ >
> 386" in bswaps.h, too.

Sounds great.  So anybody against dropping support for 386 in
runtime-cpudetection?

Zuxy, come up with a patch, I doubt there will be objections.

Diego