[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] correct illegal instruction on < armv5tE

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Monday 13 October 2008, GNUtoo at no-log.org wrote:
> > Also I wonder about your target device. Is it more or less common
> > hardware or
> > just some kind of exotic development board? I'm asking because this armv4
> > unfriendly code has been used in mplayer for ages and nobody cared until
> > now.
> > It makes me think that the number of mplayer users having armv4 hardware
> > is
> > close to zero. This fact of course does not encourage working on any
> > armv4 fixes or improvements.
> >
> > But if armv4 is still alive, I would be glad to work on improving it a
> > bit, or
> > at least fixing all the known issues. And patches are surely welcome.
>
> My device is the openmoko freerunner
> GTA02.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner ,
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> It's the totally(but the firmwares) free/open phone...
> I don't know the exact number of users(mabe a lot more than other
> devices...) but it has an active community(and some of the openembedded
> well known devellopers works for openmoko such as zecke,Michael
> Lauer(mickeyl) and even Harald Welte(I don't think that he's in the
> openembedded community ) worked for the openmoko company
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Welte#Openmoko  and works for it
> again: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/10/07/#20081007-uboot)

Interesting, so armv4 is not dead yet for general purpose video
decoding/playback and this Neo FreeRunner started shipping several 
months ago. So we may expect some armv4 code contributors to MPlayer
and FFmpeg in the near future, unless Neo FreeRunner turns out to be
a market failure. Thanks for the information.

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Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka