[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] support to disable instruction sets when runtime cpu detection is used

[Onur Küçük]

On Sun, 27 May 2007 09:58:43 +0200
Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:

> Günaydın Onur,

 İyi akşamlar :)

> >  The idea was at first to be able to disable SSSE3. Binutils
> > 2.10.1 is enough for other instruction sets but SSSE3 needs 2.16.92
> > and runtime-cpudetection forces a binutils update.
> 
> What's the problem with that? MPlayer and FFmpeg are known
> to require the latest binutils. 

 Binutils version bump might be scary. Especially since it is probably
only needed for ssse3, which the user might want to disable.

 For the experienced it is a one liner to remove _ssse3=yes. The
patch is not critical at all, I have sent it just in case anyone prefers
to apply.


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