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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:38:26 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Eric M Logan <ericmlogan@mediaone.net>
Cc:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make.conf....
Message-ID:  <3AC15CB2.ECA4274C@urx.com>
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Eric M Logan wrote:
> 
> Interesting point.  So what would you select?  i586? Or not opts at all in the
> make.conf?

Right now I am choosing march=i686 because I want to build a system on
either the dual 866 coppermines or on the Athlon and nfs mount it for
the install on the slower P-II's and Celeron. I haven't got that to
work yet but they all have to be built with the same option for that
it work.

Kent

> 
> Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> > Eric M Logan wrote:
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, since the Athlon is a 7th generation chip, shouldn't one use
> > > i686/pentiumpro in the make.conf?
> >
> > Not really because the Athlon has pipes not included in i686's.
> > Nothing really takes advantage of it on FreeBSD. I wonder at times if
> > my setiathome wu's on W2K are 20% faster than FreeBSD because the
> > compiler they used takes advantage of the Athlon architecture.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> > >
> > > Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 27-Mar-2001 Eric M Logan wrote:
> > > > > Perhaps somebody can shed some light on this.  Doing a "man gcc", I see
> > > > > that the "march=" variable supports i386, i486, pentium, and
> > > > > pentiumpro.  I'm trying to build for a k6-2 and a k6-3 cpu.  I would,
> > > > > and can only, use march=pentium right?  I ask because I've seen some
> > > > > people specify march=k6 but looking through the man pages, I see nothing
> > > > > about the k6*.  Any help would be great, thanks.
> > > >
> > > > I've been using CPUTYPE=k6, which yields march=k6, on my Athlon system with no
> > > > ill effects.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Conrad Sabatier
> > > > conrads@home.com
> > > >
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> > Kent Stewart
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> Eric M Logan
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> 
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