Re: SIMD vs no SIMD on i686 (was: [Bug 3975] executable stack flag prevents use of libx264.so.148 with selinux in enforcing mode)
Sérgio Basto wrote:
Thinking betterm since doesn't crash , and in pentium 2 we have
a
message to disable-asm , I think we should enable asm by default , and
at most drop a note in wiki , that PII are not supported or something
like that .
And I disagree with that solution, because it is not compliant with the
expected architecture support of the distribution.
If you want to enable the ASM, you will need to patch it to fix it to
properly runtime-detect also SSE 1 and MMX.
Kevin Kofler