[MPlayer-dev-eng] new Altivec patches and G3

[Andrea Palmatè]

Il 19/02/2006  00.09, hai scritto
>Well, that was interesting. By running a no-altivec kernel, I didn't find the
>mplayer bug but I apparently tripped over a Linux kernel bug. It doesn't send
>SIGILL like it should when a process triggers an altivec-disabled exception;
[..]
>So I must ask Andrea, or anyone else with a G3, for more information: where
>does it crash? before printing "AltiVec not found"? After initializing the
>video output device? And if you compile without runtime CPU detection, does
>it work then?
I have no G3. i have a G4 but other users that 
use mplayer got crash. But if i remember cpu is 
detected corrected (so AltiVec not found" is 
shown). The crash happen when our video driver 
call postproc to rescale the image


Andrea Palmatè
http://www.amigasoft.net