[MPlayer-users] Possible bug [FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT]

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 21:13, Per-Arne Holtmon Akø wrote:
> > > > what cpu do you have and which values were used for -march, -mcpu?
> > >
> > > athlon-xp for both. I have Athlon MP's.
> >
> > afaik Atnlon XP and Athlon MP (that's the SMP model if I haven't mixed it
> > up), are pretty much the same core, so I guess you are right and it's a
> > compiler bug. You could use gdb + disass to trace the faulty
> > instruction...
>
> If someone would mind holding my hand through the process I'm more than
> willing to try this.
DOCS/bugreports.html is your friend.

> > For now you should use -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 as it will be faster, than
> > omitting them at all.
>
> And that works as well. Not that I really care about my CPU usage when
> I'm watching divx's, since the machine rarely do something else then.
>
> And you're right, the MP's are the SMP version, though the core isn't
> exactly the same. I don't recall the differences right now, but they
> exist, and it makes the MP's a bit faster in database and similiar
> stuff.
I doubt it's much more then bigger cache and some different registers, that 
identify the CPU as SMP capable. At least that's how it works with Intel CPUs 
(PIII vs PIII Xeon etc).
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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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