[mythtv] New configure script oddities

[Blammo]

> I'm using the flags recommended in the 0.17 docs, I believe that
> testing showed that optimizing for the Athlon XP was slower than
> optimizing for the pentiumpro with mmx enabled (i.e. pentium2).

I''ll have to go look at the doc. Here's the compile optimizations I'm
testing on a commflag box, specific to the Barton chip I'm running in
most of my machines:

 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow

I'm not having any trouble with the single machine I'm testing it on,
and it does appear to make quite an increase in commflag performance.
I'll post some numbers once I get a chance to test some more. On the
bright side it didn't die during compile. :)

The options above were generated from a script I found called
"gccopts", which checks /proc/cpuinfo and makes guesses based on that.
I'll attach it to the end of this email, in case any one else wants to
play with it. (Since I'm sure the CR/LF's may get munged, I'll email
it to anyone who wants)


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#!/bin/sh

# Author: pixelbeat

#This script is Linux specific
#It should work on any gcc >= 2.95 at least

#these apply to any arch (just here for reference)
unsafe_math_opts="-ffast-math -fno-math-errno
-funsafe-math-optimizations -fno-trapping-math"

gcc_version=`gcc -dumpversion | sed
's/\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[0-9]\{1,\}\)\.*\([0-9]\{1,\}\)\{0,1\}/\1\2/'`

IFS=":"
while read name value; do
    unset IFS
    name=`echo $name`
    value=`echo $value`
    IFS=":"
    if [ "$name" == "vendor_id" ]; then
        vendor_id="$value"
    elif [ "$name" == "cpu family" ]; then
        cpu_family="$value"
    elif [ "$name" == "model" ]; then
        cpu_model="$value"
    elif [ "$name" == "flags" ]; then
        flags="$value"
    fi
done < /proc/cpuinfo
unset IFS

if [ "$vendor_id" == "AuthenticAMD" ]; then
    if [ "$cpu_family" == "4" ]; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=i486"
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "5" ]; then
        if [ "$cpu_model" -lt "4" ]; then
            _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium"
        elif [ "$cpu_model" == "6" ] || [ "$cpu_model" == "7" ]; then
            _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
        elif [ "$cpu_model" == "8" ] || [ "$cpu_model" == "12" ]; then
            if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6-2"
            else
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
            fi
        elif [ "$cpu_model" == "9" ] || [ "$cpu_model" == "13" ]; then
            if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6-3"
            else
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
            fi
        fi
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "6" ]; then
        if [ "$cpu_model" -le "3" ]; then
            if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.0 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=athlon"
            else
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
            fi
        elif [ "$cpu_model" == "4" ]; then
            if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=athlon-tbird"
            elif expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.0 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=athlon"
            else
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
            fi
        elif [ "$cpu_model" -ge "6" ]; then #athlon-{4,xp,mp}
            if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=athlon-xp"
            elif expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.0 >/dev/null; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=athlon"
            else
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=k6"
            fi
        fi
    fi
else #everything else "GenuineIntel"
    if [ "$cpu_family" == "3" ]; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=i386"
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "4" ]; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=i486"
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "5" ] && expr $gcc_version '<' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium"
    elif [ "$cpu_family" -ge "6" ] && expr $gcc_version '<' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentiumpro"
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "5" ]; then
        if [ "$cpu_model" != "4" ]; then
            _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium"
        else
            _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium-mmx" #No overlap with other vendors
        fi
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "6" ]; then
        if echo "$flags" | grep -vq cmov; then #gcc incorrectly
assumes i686 always has cmov
            _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium -mcpu=pentiumpro" #VIA
CPUs exhibit this
        else
            if [ "$cpu_model" == "0" ] || [ "$cpu_model" == "1" ]; then
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentiumpro"
            elif [ "$cpu_model" -ge "3" ] && [ "$cpu_model" -le "6" ];
then #4=TM5600 at least
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium2"
            elif [ "$cpu_model" -ge "7" ] && [ "$cpu_model" -le "11"
]; then #9 invalid
                _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium3"
            fi
        fi
    elif [ "$cpu_family" == "15" ]; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -march=pentium4"
    fi
fi

if expr $gcc_version '>=' 3.1 >/dev/null; then
    if echo "$flags" | grep -q sse2; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -mfpmath=sse -msse2"
    elif echo "$flags" | grep -q sse; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -mfpmath=sse -msse"
    fi
    if echo "$flags" | grep -q mmx; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -mmmx"
    fi
    if echo "$flags" | grep -q 3dnow; then
        _CFLAGS="$_CFLAGS -m3dnow"
    fi
fi

echo "$_CFLAGS"