[Pixman] [PATCH 0/2] mmx nearest scaling paths

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Søren Sandmann
<soren.sandmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> IIRC, we have already discussed it before. Maybe we should just disable
>> MMX support for x86 and use it only for MIPS Loongson and ARM IWMMXT?

I don't really see the benefit. The bugs we've had have all been
trivially fixed.

I'm concerned that if we disable the MMX code on x86 that over time we
might not notice a bug and it'll become harder to debug. But I suppose
you had to disable SSE2 to find those bugs anyway..

> I'd be in favor of that. For a long time the only real use case for MMX/x86
> has been the XO 1 laptops, and I really doubt that they are getting updated
> pixman libraries any more.
>
> Søren

Cc'ing Daniel Drake, who should know.