Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:39:59 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m
Message-ID:  <20050315203959.GB41996@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <42373A83.6040201@alumni.rice.edu>
References:  <422ACE0B.4060503@lumachedelcervello.cjb.net> <422B502C.6090003@chillt.de> <20050312022324.GA4899@hub.freebsd.org> <423363C4.60508@chillt.de> <20050315020930.GA14246@dragon.NUXI.org> <42373A83.6040201@alumni.rice.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:55PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:48:52PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> >>>Are you saying, all we need to do is commit this diff to make everyone's
> >>>environment happy?
> >
> >Can you try with just -mno-sse2?  I'd like to litter the compile command
> >line as little as possible.
> 
> I had this issue a while back with my Athlon-XP box 
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-November/042127.html). 
>  Note that I would get instant reboots with CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp, CPUTYPE?=p3, 
> and CPUTYPE?=p2.  However, it worked fine with CPUTYPE?=k6-2.  I think you 
> are right to be cautious and disable anything that uses FP registers.

I remember that problem but I don't know why I don't experience it, since
I also use CPUTYPE=athlon-mp on my home desktop.  I suspect the problem
is SSE2 usage, which the Althon {X,M}P doesn't support.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050315203959.GB41996>