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configure altivec patch by Magnus Damm <[e-mail]> * CC is not checked for Altivec support (see above). The patch adds checks for FSF-style flags and Darwin-style flags. The check is performed regardless of the gcc version. * Disabling of Altivec. --disable-altivec is broken today if /proc/cpuinfo shows that your cpu supports altivec. The patch takes care of that. * "GCC & CPU optimization abilities" always show that it is optimizing for the cpu configure is running on, it should show the optimization that is enabled for gcc instead. Cosmetic change only, but confusing as it is today IMHO. * Runtime CPU-detection now enables altivec for powerpc. Now with the patch it should be possible to use --enable-altivec, --disable-altivec, --enable-runtime-cpudetection regardless of powerpc cpu type. The configure script handles altivec support in the following order: 1. Altivec is enabled by default if your cpu supports it. 2. --enable-runtime-cpudetection will enable altivec support. 3. If you have forced altivec on/off with --enable-altivec/--disable-altivec, then your selection will override the previous altivec configuration. 4. If altivec is enabled but the compiler doesn't support it, altivec gets turned off.

lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library
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This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different
OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent.

The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace
video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving).

For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported
as working' list (these platforms are used daily):
 Linux/x86
 FreeBSD/x86
 NetBSD/x86
 Linux/PPC

There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that.
With root privileges libdha will finely run, but there are some others ways
to use it as a normal user:
1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root priviliges)
2, use svgalib kernel helper
3, use dhahelper (not yet finished)

The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project)
sources.

Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi.
Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi.
Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av.
(for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)