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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
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