[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] sse disabled on win32 into docs

[Guillaume Poirier]

compn wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:57:11 +0100
> Sascha Sommer <saschasommer at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:37, John Brown wrote:
>>
>>>>... the SSE routins get disabled by configure completely under win32, even
>>>>when mencoder is not build.
>>>
>>>Are you sure?
>>>
>>>config.h
>>>-----------
>>>/* Extension defines */
>>>...
>>>#define HAVE_SSE 1	// only define if you have SSE (Intel Pentium III/4 or
>>>Celeron II)
>>>#define HAVE_SSE2 1	// only define if you have SSE2 (Intel Pentium 4)
>>>
>>>config.mak
>>>--------------
>>>TARGET_SSE = yes
>>>
>>>
>>
>>It gets disabled in the runtime cpudetection code.
>>
>>Sascha
> 
> 
> patch to add 'sse support when building on win32 is disabled' to docs.
> 
> second patch to add note for 'p4 users to turn off hyperthreading if the are
> experiencing a crash using realplayer codecs'. based upon bugreport in
> mplayer-advusers.

Why on earth is sse disabled on win32? Could it be because currently
./configure would be using only /proc/cpuinfo to fetch informations
about the CPU?
In that case, I suggest we use TOOLS/cpuinfo.c to get a "/proc/cpuinfo
output" which configure could parse and use...

Thoughts?

Guillaume