: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] AIX PPC mplayer port

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:10:10 +0000 (GMT), "Derek E. Lewis" <dlewis at solnetworks.net> said:

> I had the chance to build Mplayer on a POWER system today and things went 
> *much* better than I had originally expected, as the POWER4 and 5 seem to 
> be compatible with the PowerPC (604e and above). I still don't know how 
> well a build on a POWER3 would go, though.

Compatibility testing is also complicated by AIX, which emulates many of the
missing instructions on each chip.

__Martin