On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:08 -0600, Tres Melton wrote:
> The reply to the top half of the email (deleted) is in another email to
> the list.
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:00 -0400, Michael Jennings wrote:
> > > Another issue that needs to get resolved in the ./configure script
> > > is that it enables MMX on my AMD64. That's fine, I have MMX, but
> > > the code in mmx_cmod.S is not compatible with a 64 bit chip. The
> > > proper thing to do at the moment is to disable MMX on AMD64. Eterm
> > > won't compile without doing that via "./configure --disable-mmx".
> > > That should be automatic. There is also a HAVE_MMX macro that
> > > enables/disables certain things. I propose adding a HAVE_MMX_64
> > > macro for using the MMX extensions on AMD64 (and EM64T).
> >
> > I agree. Do you have any suggestions for detecting x86_64 as opposed
> > to i386?
>
> The only way that I know of detecting x86_64 is the way I did for the
> WMHints on AMD64: "#ifdef LONG64". That won't work while we are
> configuring though. As I said, I'm new to some of these tools and
> configure is one of them. Any ideas here people? Please chime in.
>
Check out the imlib2 configure:
case $target_cpu in
i*86)
;
x64_64)
;
esac
> > > I'm working on other things for Eterm right now including an MMX
> > > port to AMD64. I have been in touch with, Willem-Jan Monsuwe
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the original author of the code and it sounds
> > > like he did it just for fun when MMX first came out and is no longer
> > > interested in it. I sent a preliminary mmx_64_cmod.S file and hope
> > > he looks it over. If I don't hear back from him or he doesn't want
> > > to get involved I'll try and finish the port myself. It has been a
> > > while since I've coded in Asm so it might take some time for me to
> > > complete the port.
> >
> > No hurry, though I'm sure the folks on Opteron systems would love MMX
> > support. :)
> >
> > I've received the patches you've sent so far. I'm going to get
> > through them as quickly as I can, but my Real Job(tm) is keeping me
> > pretty busy too, so please be patient. :) But keep the patches
> > coming!
>
> Great! No problem.
Again, check out the imlib2 stuff in cvs - from cursory inspection, it
does much the same thing as the eterm code, but with improvements over
the old mmx imlib code that are specific to amd64.
--
John Slaten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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