From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8pwq-0004z1-3Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 06:15:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04C94E03F5; Tue, 26 May 2009 06:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA856E03F5 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,248,1241391600"; d="scan'208";a="96757929" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 26 May 2009 07:15:38 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8A0137BE3 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 07:15:36 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200905260710.08709.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 07:15:33 +0100 References: <4E38BD16-0410-4A31-839C-290364A8D735@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200905260637.49384.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <195F8064-21ED-4FBB-8C2D-78F45FBAF59A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200905260710.08709.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Archives-Salt: 65aa0b58-f744-46f4-8578-7e195a60ab3f X-Archives-Hash: c348090711242a3bf7bf83dcbc55904d On 26 May 2009, at 06:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> ... >> The mplayer ebuild is stated to be "intelligent" about ignoring these >> flags if necessary, so I'm not sure that "if mplayer works, so will >> everything else" is a safe conclusion. My question was exactly if it >> was so - are other ebuilds also as "intelligent" as mplayer? >> >> ... >> I'd disagree. If it were really simple, Portage would take care of it >> automagically for me. It (apparently?) doesn't. > > portage does not take care. mplayers build has a cpu feature > autodection. > > Different stuff. Really. Right, that was the question. Thank you for answering it. Sorry if I was unclear. >> Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow >> 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is able to >> be more informative. > > yeah, except that is bullshit So? It doesn't matter. Uh, I mean - that's what you just told me. > no pentium can do 3dnow. I did think that. But with other instructions adopted by the other manufacturer (eg. Intel adopted the amd64 architecture, I think?) it seemed odd that a set of instructions would be ignored so long. > Or was there a 3dnow flag in /proc/mtrr? No? Then > don't even touch it. Same for ssse3. This has nothing to do with > sse3. It is > something completly different. And p4 never had this. That's cool. I'll just keep minimal hardware USE flags in make.conf; in /etc/portage/package.use I'll tell mplayer to USE everything (including 3dnow) that it can. Thanks, Stroller.