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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 3dnow* 3dnowext* mmx* mmxext* sse* sse2*, etc. on AMD64
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:17:12
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0611271815o43c7a42u360c2f6135d03fd8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 3dnow* 3dnowext* mmx* mmxext* sse* sse2*, etc. on AMD64 by Harm Geerts
1 On 11/27/06, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl> wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 02:33, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 <SNIP>
4 > >
5 > > [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 USE="3dnow* 3dnowext* X
6 > > alsa dvd dvdread encode gif gtk i8x0 ipv6 jack jpeg (mmx*) mmxext*
7 > > opengl png sdl (sse*) (sse2*) truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis xv xvid
8 > > (-3dfx) -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia
9 > > -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb
10 > > -esd -fbcon -ggi -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -mad
11 > > -matrox -musepack -nas -nvidia -openal -oss (-real) -rtc -samba -speex
12 > > (-svga) -tga -theora (-win32codecs) -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xvmc
13 > > (-xmms%)" LINGUAS="-bg -cs -da -de -el -en -es -fr -hu -ja -ko -mk -nl
14 > > -no -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW" 220 kB
15 >
16 > This is normal, they changed the way these flags are handled because not all
17 > 64bit cpu's support the same instructions. As you can see in the mplayer
18 > package, mmx,sse and sse2 are still masked because they supported on all
19 > 64bit cpu's. Those are always enabled !
20 >
21 > The remaining flags you can set if your cpu supports them.
22 > $ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo
23
24 Thanks Harm. I'll look into it.
25
26 Are you suggesting that ALL flags can now be enabled if the processor
27 supports the flag? That would be nice and similar to the way I've
28 worked with my 32-bit boxes.
29
30 It seemed to me that 18 months ago when I built this machine all these
31 flags were turned off since they caused problems with most packages. I
32 guess that is getting fixed now so that's cool. Great to see some
33 progress in this area.
34
35 Cheers,
36 Mark
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