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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:24:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: adding athlon xp to bsd.cpu.mk
Message-ID:  <200110302324.f9UNOwr21457@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011028163713.B32015@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> [ BTW, ONE LIST OR THE OTHER PLEASE!! ]
> 
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:00:44PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > +. elif ${CPUTYPE} == "athlonxp"
> > +CPUTYPE = xp
> 
> Please, NO.  There is no 'XP' processor.  It is AthlonXP -- so use the
> full name. 'k7' was the name of the CPU for quite a long time while it
> was in development, thus poeple came to call the CPU 'k7'.  I don't know
> of anyone that has or will start to call the latest CPU 'xp'.
> 
> Please rework the patch leaving out the 'xp' part.

so, how to make the difference between an old (k7) and a new k7 (xp) ?
the later one having SSE in addition to the former one...

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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