From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 00:14:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFDE106568D for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:14:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com (mail-qy0-f174.google.com [209.85.221.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A77A8FC16 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so950118qyk.7 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=DRLMjQBrrBqLv05fJ9QBcz3YzDLPKKyOuOKQFyQW7tE=; b=TwFuC3R5yiZn3S2+Hhenck7hW3ii2d2Wqa19B+Uni8iBEjMhbT/4zxhvQblhzHsIaS LiBx5J3lc4IVBD2AYtiKwt+n+Fm1JPMOroN4HgJuTOHaZKReCD1cSsOImA+coHaVmNN/ Zc8zvobusJmf2RSXrNcMTwrDKsGsMVG4fQLNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aJdME8M6coUd3X27IA21CMOYahSeu/iPhGCyeRSW1VZ1DiUHdWvwPAoSesIVJ5W4MY img49O6CESSD5iQBp1/KXTSIjswfUpCGRtd/pKpeg8GslzxC3Ci88KFWVsT7imBF6xAs 0TdEmZSBcTtzq5LPFhjgBy6lGjq5K1xf8j/Js= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.131.39 with SMTP id v39mr2266197qcs.66.1264205698359; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <560f92641001221524n1290e70fi51d766e8e0f488bf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:58 -0800 Message-ID: <560f92641001221614s1ccb6fcbg3407dd8445bfa1d5@mail.gmail.com> From: Nerius Landys To: Ivan Voras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon? 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: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:14:59 -0000 > There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you > can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to > see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks. Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on 64 bit and tell me what I will find in the Makefile, so I can look for it on other ports? > Additional information for Nehalems is that you should stick to the more > widely available models - the 4 core+HTT ones. Some of the more exotic ones > (6 core) might have problems with ULE and topology guesswork. The L5506 is a 4 core model without Turbo Boost and without Hyper Threading. It's a power-efficient model. Think that'll be OK? http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40712