[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix configure to disable MMX for Pentium Pro

[Alex Converse]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
<darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Attached. ?This is essentially fixing an oversight in r21277.
>>
>> -Eli
>
> This means every distro who uses --cpu=i686 or similar will silently
> have their ffmpeg crippled the next time they make a build.
>

They asked for something that runs on a vanilla i686.

We used to have something that worked on i686 and was optimized on
fancier CPUs but someone broke that.