From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 10:16:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CE416A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E778413C4B8 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:16:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so112472wra for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:16:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KkuXbtqxhoIiQ3xsOMbvxyE4fCV2fL4dKB12+zu7iZ93U9xfvxhH5OvzCMd1Rpe/pG9+Fir7yDYFXsb51uPIkXZGqz7xv/Z9pWrSVUJifzixt1gcm++CUwG6X5qAtNU9EjANmygXCtfiQf9ayCn5rwJCroy8J0ZXyeovhtKtXfY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U0rSKwXk8Jo17NkqXKdlRimZrHE0X+yHsdOVitQwXNc8dkND/JUVyFUH4l47yPp7Q0w2Aqij/OcriCkZFUy3lPU9bVxAg2vhFewvmYpgSw+DErgjJphUTM5pf0RtKpQet8H1A0wx0DUPzZjH/Wc8gIQrtScPIpvUChGxFmYPhHw= Received: by 10.114.133.1 with SMTP id g1mr159447wad.1173953769107; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.148.18 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0703150316x67bd1783g53ad5f7d04ed2682@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:16:09 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: cpghost In-Reply-To: <20070315084846.GA15959@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <682271DA-A9C3-48E0-A18E-8546A7725864@goldmark.org> <20070315084846.GA15959@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Jeffrey Goldberg Subject: Re: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:16:11 -0000 On 3/15/07, cpghost wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > I have one of these > > > > CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 > > Features=0x380b035 > > > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp? > > motherboard_id=81 > > > > And 6.2-RELEASE p2 > > > > When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build > > just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken. Most compiling > > attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error. > > > > Now that I've entered the FreeBSD world and am building everything > > from source, I would like to take advantage of that by compiling for > > my system. > > > > Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning > > do you recommend? > > I have > > CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (533.36-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 > Features=0x803035 > real memory = 528416768 (503 MB) > > running FreeBSD 6.2 without problems. The key here is NOT to set > CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. Just use the defaults and you're fine. > > > A dmesg for the system is available at > > > > http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg > > > > Cheers, > > > > -j > > > > > > -- > > Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ > > Regards, > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ As cpghost said, there is no big difference when you make an optimization for the time being. You can also check http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags and see what cflag you can use with it. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/