Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:18:33 -0400 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated mythtv-fixes port Message-ID: <46054F59.1020300@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <20070324151536.GB46175@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20070323181558.GA46175@chuggalug.clues.com> <20070324145558.2e0f462b@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20070324151536.GB46175@chuggalug.clues.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would anybody care to clarify who stands to gain from this port, i.e. what sorts of hardware is unoptimized and covered here? I'm a little bit confused... Geoff Buckingham wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:55:58PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Why not add a configure option to allow to hardwire to a specific CPU? >> >> There's also "sysctl hw.model", but it may not work everywhere. The >> configure-option is a much better fallback. >> > hw.model looks interesting, I had looked through sysctl for something to > use but was looking for cpu or processor :-) > > The CPU detection only gets used if the mythtv configure isn't given the > relevent arguments. It should be possible to get the port's makefile > to add these if required. > > I was going to ry and get an vidia XVMC option working next. May switch to > hw.model then although, ideally we shoul have a way to find "features" like > MMX. > (The Myth TV configure seems to both try to detect them, and in other cases > assume fetures based on Model Name.) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" - -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBU9YCgdfeCwsL5ERAus/AJ9O2+7g9R9Sf+X6X5SbDG7j/I1ZMQCbB8go Z6RwRX60ZuIXP8I2cD6LYmY= =vmAW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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