SPECS: mythtv.spec - i586 has mmx

Krystian T tomczyk at op.onet.pl
Mon Oct 17 19:58:35 CEST 2005


Dnia 17-10-2005, pon o godzinie 18:34 +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
napisał(a):
> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Go=B3aszewski?= wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Maciej Pijanka wrote:
> > > > > Author: glen                         Date: Sun Sep 25 17:50:17 2005 GMT
                          ^^^^^ but glen doesn't read devel-pl - cc to
en
> > > > > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > > > > ---- Log message:
> > > > > - i586 has mmx
> > > > BTW, is it runtime choice ?
> > > > If not:
> > > > - not all i586 has mmx (eg. Cyrix / AMD K5)
> > > > - even not all Pentiums has mmx ( < 150MHz definetely don't)
> > > ven 166 was with and without mmx, 2 different cores m not sure if i saw 
> > > 200 without mmx too.
> > 
> > P-200 was with and without mmx.
> > P-233 was AFAIR the first mmx-only CPU.
> 
> Of course. I meant that all < 150MHz were no-mmx, AFAIR.
> 
> And "pentium" should also be added to excludearch (or we do not support
> this?)
> 
> > But... this spec assumes also that every i686 has mmx. And it's not true 
> > :( - there were such veeeery nice and veeery old-first-i686, called 
> > Pentium Pro. non-mmx, sorry...
> 
> So the key question is: is the code "runtime choice" or not ?
> If not, it should only be enabled for archs like pentium2, pentium3, etc.
> 
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