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Re: Are G3/ no altivec cpu still usable on Debian?



On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 11:56 +0200, Lorenzo wrote:

> According to mplayer upstream [1] "AltiVec runtime detection never
> worked reliably" and "the way it was detected in libavcodec was an
> unacceptable hack".. that was in back in 2007, I'll check if upstream
> still consider runtime detection unfeasible.

Runtime instruction selection has gotten a lot easier since then,
please take a look at the Debian documentation for this:

https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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