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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:29:18PM +0300, Onur K???k wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 09:58:43 +0200
> Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> > >  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.

Well, it is a bit more problematic IMO, since I have binutils 2.16.1 and
it does not work either, even newer versions are somewhat hard to come
by (ok, I alread have 2.17 on quite a few systems, but not the "stable"
ones).