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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:26:54 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?
Message-ID:  <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <e890cae60807250045n5b0fb277jc09ee646379bd88f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e890cae60807250045n5b0fb277jc09ee646379bd88f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have an Asus A6JE laptop which has an Intel T5600 CPU.  It is
> currently configured as i386
> with CPUTYPE=3Dprescott.  But after reading wikipedia, I get the idea
> that I have slightly
> underconfigured my box, i.e. that a better configuration is possible.
> dmesg says (7.0-release):
>=20
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz (1828.77-MHz 686-cla=
ss CPU)
>   Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x6f6  Stepping =3D 6
> Features=3D0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG=
E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=3D0xe3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PD=
CM>
>   AMD Features=3D0x20100000<NX,LM>
>   AMD Features2=3D0x1<LAHF>
>   Cores per package: 2

No it's configured correctly. See /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk

> Maybe some amd64 configuration is possible, since it the cpu has AMD feat=
ures?

If you want amd64, you should have installed the amd64 architecture. But
remember that some ports (e.g. flash plugin) are only available for the
i386 architecture.

Roland
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