[gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-21 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 18 May 2013 12:14:35 -0700 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: MMX2/MMXEXT still confuses me. SSE1 and /Enhanced/ 3DNow! added some extra MMX instructions. Some (pshufw and pmulhuw particularly) turn out to be rather useful in software compositing. I use them in the pixman MMX

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: [...] ...shouldn't mmxext be moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc? all the cpu flags should be global IMHO, regardless of how many packages use them: we already mask/unmask them globally on arches where they are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-19 Thread viv...@gmail.com
On 05/19/13 17:47, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: [...] ...shouldn't mmxext be moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc? all the cpu flags should be global IMHO, regardless of how many packages use them: we already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-19 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: [...] ...shouldn't mmxext be moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc? all the cpu flags should be global IMHO, regardless of how many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-19 Thread René Neumann
Am 19.05.2013 18:03, schrieb viv...@gmail.com: On 05/19/13 17:47, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: [...] ...shouldn't mmxext be moved out of use.local.desc into use.desc? all the cpu flags should be global IMHO, regardless of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:59:57 +0200 yac y...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I was recently investigating what cpu flags do I have and how does it work. I have put what I have so far at [1]. So I thought I let you know in case

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:14:35PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote The particularly annoying thing about using them is that there's no -mmmx2 or -mmmxext... Now that you mention it... [i660][waltdnes][~] grep mmxext /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc media-libs/libpostproc:mmxext - Enable mmx2

[gentoo-dev] Re: CPU use flag detection

2013-05-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:59:57 +0200 yac y...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I was recently investigating what cpu flags do I have and how does it work. I have put what I have so far at [1]. So I thought I let you know in case someone wants to chip in. [1] https://github.com/yaccz/cufd I've