From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 19:38:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC5EE37B71B for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: (qmail 7304 invoked by uid 0); 28 Mar 2001 03:38:27 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 03:38:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3AC15CB2.ECA4274C@urx.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:38:26 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric M Logan Cc: Conrad Sabatier , FreeBSD stable , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: make.conf.... References: <3AC143E1.99B1C16D@mediaone.net> <3AC158E8.8AD10200@urx.com> <3AC159A8.66AB2EC6@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric M Logan wrote: > > Interesting point. So what would you select? i586? Or not opts at all in the > make.conf? Right now I am choosing march=i686 because I want to build a system on either the dual 866 coppermines or on the Athlon and nfs mount it for the install on the slower P-II's and Celeron. I haven't got that to work yet but they all have to be built with the same option for that it work. Kent > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Eric M Logan wrote: > > > > > > Out of curiosity, since the Athlon is a 7th generation chip, shouldn't one use > > > i686/pentiumpro in the make.conf? > > > > Not really because the Athlon has pipes not included in i686's. > > Nothing really takes advantage of it on FreeBSD. I wonder at times if > > my setiathome wu's on W2K are 20% faster than FreeBSD because the > > compiler they used takes advantage of the Athlon architecture. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > > > > > On 27-Mar-2001 Eric M Logan wrote: > > > > > Perhaps somebody can shed some light on this. Doing a "man gcc", I see > > > > > that the "march=" variable supports i386, i486, pentium, and > > > > > pentiumpro. I'm trying to build for a k6-2 and a k6-3 cpu. I would, > > > > > and can only, use march=pentium right? I ask because I've seen some > > > > > people specify march=k6 but looking through the man pages, I see nothing > > > > > about the k6*. Any help would be great, thanks. > > > > > > > > I've been using CPUTYPE=k6, which yields march=k6, on my Athlon system with no > > > > ill effects. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Conrad Sabatier > > > > conrads@home.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > > ***************************** > > > Eric M Logan > > > ericmlogan@mediaone.net > > > eric_m_logan@yahoo.com > > > > > > ***************************** > > > Flames to /dev/null plz. :) > > > ***************************** > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > -- > ***************************** > Eric M Logan > ericmlogan@mediaone.net > eric_m_logan@yahoo.com > > ***************************** > Flames to /dev/null plz. :) > ***************************** -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message