Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:36:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What kind of CPU-type when using AMD-K6 2? Message-ID: <20000926093648.A36385@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251905380.5076-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:07:41PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251905380.5076-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Monday, 25 September 2000 at 19:07:41 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > Some of our boxes running FreeBSD are based on AMD's K6-2 CPUs. My question is: > > Is AMD K6-2 CPU CPU type i586 or i686? At this time, I use in kernel > the option CPU type i586 but I want to ask for that here not to give > away performance by using a wrong type of CPU. Thanks for your > comments, That's correct. You can confirm this yourself with dmesg: CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping = 2 Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX> AMD Features=0x400<<b10>> Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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