Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] regarding mobos and CPUs

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] regarding mobos and CPUs
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 17:50:58 EEST


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:20:38 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Taybin Rutkin wrote:
>
> >What is the problem with JACK and AMD cpus? I haven't heard of one.
> >
> >
> >
> Not so long ago a release of qjackctl in Planet C failed due to (IIRC)
> JACK getting compiled with an SSE call (or calls) that killed it
> completely on my Duron. The problem was simply and quickly solved, and
> I'm perhaps off-base accusing JACK but that's where the problem came
> from. Maybe it was a bad make ?

The modern AMD chips support SSE, and its not really the AMDs fault, its
just that someone put some dodgy optimation code in the Makefile or auto*.

- Steve


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