From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 22:32:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-6.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2E337B414 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AED666E3D; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:32:26 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Nelson Cc: David Loszewski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there an i686 version? Message-ID: <20010912223226.A30754@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness> <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0500 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 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 13), David Loszewski said: > > I just noticed at my login prompt it says, 'FreeBSD/i386', this is > > version 4.3 from the iso, is there a FreeBSD/i686 that anyone is > > aware of since I would assume that this would speed things up. >=20 > i386 refers to the architecture, not the specific processor type. Your > two choices at the moment are FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha. The > GENERIC kernel has optimizations builtin for 486, 586, and 686 already. But a few things will be faster (probably not noticeably so) if you recompile your kernel without the lower-valued CPU values, because otherwise it will use the lowest common denominator for some of the kernel asm routines. Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7oETpWry0BWjoQKURAlP4AJ4k1pOj9GL3SsovStajCIgVnlxIkgCgjngZ xW3t7hhqPthEOu4DCYIbdbQ= =Ko01 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message