[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Remove cputable.h?

Zuxy Meng zuxy.meng at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 14:30:59 CET 2009


2009/2/19 Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:57:28 +0800
> Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We've stopped updating this header for quite some time. Besides, most
>> x86 CPUs nowadays (from Tualatin onwards for Intel, K6 for AMD) are
>> equipped with built-in name string. So should we now consider removing
>> the table altogether?
>
> I wouldnt. Though i only see sense to do detection ourselfs when handling
> pre P-II processors (iirc)... I've no clue how many of them are still in
> use for video decoding.

For them, we still print the vendor, family, model and stepping as
well as SIMD support and I guess that's fairly enough.
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