[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fw: [MPlayer-users] [PATCH] Support Intel Family 7 and 8 Processors

[Sascha Sommer]

I got his message forwarded in a private mail. Can someone, who knows this
code, please check?


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt at gsicomp.on.ca>
> To: <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 3:13 AM
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] [PATCH] Support Intel Family 7 and 8 Processors
>
>
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
>
>
> > When running mplayer on an Intel family 7/8 CPU, mplayer will treat
these
> > CPUs as family 3 (386) even though they are identified as family 7/8.
> >
> > [ My CPU is identified as this: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster
(Family:
> 8,
> > Stepping: 3) ]
> >
> > This is because Intel CPU Families 7 and 8 do not have constants in
> > cpudetect.h and are not handled by loader/win32.c, so mplayer considers
> > these processers to be CPUTYPE_I386.
> >
> > This is a problem when using QT audio codecs since the win32 QT DDLs
will
> > unload themselves if the CPU required for the codec is not present.  (In
> > particular, decoding QDMC/QDM2 audio requires at least a Pentium
> processor.)
> >
> > This may also be the cause of problems that other people have reported
on
> > the mplayer-users list.
> >
> > Patches (tested against current CVS sources) are attached.
> >
> > --
> > Matt Emmerton
> >

Sascha
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