From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 6:39: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EBE37B486 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 06:38:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:37:42 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 503DDBB26; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:37:26 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Peter Leftwich , Justin L Boss Subject: Re: Performance 686 - 386 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:37:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020307133726.503DDBB26@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 07 March 2002 01:16 am, Peter Leftwich wrote: | In my /etc/defaults/make.conf file, the line for CPUTYPE is commented out. | | # Currently the following CPU types are recognised: | # Intel x86 architecture: | # (AMD CPUs) k7 k6-2 k6 k5 | # (Intel CPUs) p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386 | # Alpha/AXP architecture: ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4 | # [snip]compiled with processor-specific (or higher - see below) | optimization flags. # If in doubt, do not set CPUTYPE or CFLAGS to | non-default values. #CPUTYPE=i686 | #NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true # Don't add -march= to CFLAGS automatically | #NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=true # Don't add -march= to COPTFLAGS automatically | | Does this matter? Or is this option/parameter obtained from the current | kernel or something...? No, it means that the option is defaulting to the "default default" (to 486, I think). | | FreeBSD san.rr.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 | GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC | i386 (On an AMD Athlon 600MHz, 512mb RAM) -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message