Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: magudexter <magudexter@yahoo.com> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: k6 or i686 optimization on AMD Athlon? Message-ID: <20020902121656.36310.qmail@web20303.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200209021205.g82C5f0O087599@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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Okay, but when will the gcc3.21 make it into the stable release? And until then, for the gcc-2.95.3 (the one found in the stable version) what setting you know works better: i686 or k6? --- Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> wrote: > magudexter writes: > > I recently purchase a AMD XP processor belonging > to > > the k7 family. Even though the > /etc/default/make.conf > > mentions the k7 processor in CPUTYPE the cc > compiler > > know only k6 and i686(alias pentiumpro). > > > > Every build using the make.conf with the > CPUTYPE=k7 > > make actually a build with march=k6(which belongs > to > > i586 family). > > > > Support for Athlons depends on the compiler version. > gcc-3.2, just > imported to -current, has: > > march=athlon|march=athlon-tbird|march=athlon-4|march=athlon-xp > mcpu=athlon|mcpu=athlon-tbird|mcpu=athlon-4|mcpu=athlon-xp|mcpu=athlon-mp > > If you're using an older version of gcc (like 2.95), > then the Athlon > is not explicitly supported. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org > gj@denx.de > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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