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

[Steve Harris]

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