[MPlayer-dev-eng] Quite confused by comments in configure

Jindrich Makovicka makovick at kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz
Sun Nov 13 13:51:42 CET 2005


Zuxy wrote:
> 6) iproc=686
>         # VIA C3 has SSE, but doesn't have MMX2
>         # workaround for SSE => MMX2 implication above
>         _mmx2=no
> 
> I doubt very much if the above statement of C3 is correct. How can a
> CPU that supports MOVNTPS lacks the support for SFENCE? That would be
> a logical fallacy in design!

I doubt it too, but Thijs Vermeir ("Compiling on C3-2 Nehemiah" thread) 
said that mplayer doesn't run on it with mmx2 enabled. I unfortunately 
don't have a C3 to verify it.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka




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