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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:33:39PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2006/12/2, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> >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.
> 
> I'm against removal of this from bswap.h. It have nothing to do with
> runtime cpu detection.

seconded


[...]
> >Sounds great.  So anybody against dropping support for 386 in
> >runtime-cpudetection?
> >Zuxy, come up with a patch, I doubt there will be objections.
> 
> No objection.

neither do i have any ...

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