[MPlayer-dev-eng] Do not display CPU codenames?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/13/05, Zuxy <zuxy.meng at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cputable.h is used to map cpu models to its codename and shows it to
> the user whenever mplayer starts. Pretty cool feature. However the
> problem is to maintain it. Neither Intel nor AMD has an official
> document indicating how to do the mapping. And till now there are
> hundreds of codenames created and the number is still increasing. Just
> take a look at http://users.erols.com/chare/cpu_gen.htm! And at
> present cputable.h is already quite outdated, containing no codenames
> for Athon 64.
>
> What I suggest is not to display the codename but the namestring or
> the cpuid signature, until there is a portable external library. This
> should be much simpler and we always return correct information. My
> rationale:
>
> 1. When we might say something misleading we'd better say nothing.
> 2. /proc/cpuinfo and cpu-z do a much better job than we do, since it's
> their only job.
>
> Any ideas?

Seconded. Even though it would be nice to still display the codename,
it is not the purpose of MPlayer to go into such details...

Guillaume
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