On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:19:38PM -0700, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Loren Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >>> On 07/31/2012 06:17 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  30 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> Looks ok, but probably should get other opinions on this as well. I know
> >>> Ronald was trying to keep x86inc.asm sychronized with x264, and trying
> >>> to do so after this change would likely require similar extensive
> >>> cpuflag modifications in x264.
> >>
> >> I volunteer to patch x264 if such a change would be accepted on their
> >> side.
> >
> > Rejected. I like "mmx2" better.
> > However, I wouldn't be opposed to dropping mmx1 entirely and using
> > the name "mmx" to refer to mmx2. (x264 doesn't actually support mmx1
> > anyway; we use mmx2 inline asm that's actually inlined in places where
> > runtime cpu detection is impossible.) But that wouldn't help
> > synchronization if libav doesn't do so.
> 
> Right - from my PoV, keeping us in sync with x264 is more important
> that having a slightly more accurate cpuflag for something that's
> never exposed to end users in any way.

It is exposed through configure.

> Diego, have ideas on how to fix this,

Yes, why don't you convince Loren that mmxext is the more sensible name?

> or can you live with changing everything to MMX2 instead?

I believe mmxext is the better name and everybody except Loren seems
to agree.  There are very few uses of mmx2/mmxext in x86inc.asm and
they are unlikely to ever conflict with future changes to this file.
Besides, we only sync a few times per year.

So I'm unconvinced that using mmx2 would be a net benefit.  I still
hope that Loren can change his mind, as I said, I volunteer to do
all the work.

Diego
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