[MPlayer-dev-eng] Do we need to check for CPU types with --enable-runtime-cpudetection?

Zuxy Meng zuxy.meng at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 20:15:37 CET 2006


2006/12/3, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:48:44AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> >
> > 2006/12/3, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > >Patches welcome.
> >
> > Oldest cpu we support: i486 or i386 then?
>
> I don't really care.  Would MPlayer run on a 386?  Is there anything it
> could play on such a machine?

If we set it to i486, we're guaranteed to run with bswap instruction
available; we then can remove iproc in configure and  "#if __CPU__ >
386" in bswaps.h, too.

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