From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 09:05:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74131065675 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4988FC23 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so1787476wah.3 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vNTKu0unfbnF+1FF/4iHTk6QPOwTey7W7+5zP04cY9Y=; b=jRWr+H5iiRGbARKRHxWkaA/1PiV8f8MFMhJwNyozCORnTaVVwffNNTX+rERj/yhASm 8l6nEoCIpjPsSBYnc2+veXUY9igx+wC+3oigXYNT/msKClhRin1ZUV3Ffehh+ZuP9rMN vuM3rjkp/DRV1PnRcjdaU77CE6G/ap1uDoYos= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=f/YkWpGxTNbjNG/GlSpQnJ8V/gztH+PrigQ9+rg2fvAV0ra4yVQOGRt0vbqn75nxjJ NEjY/sqDmcHk1/hCboNZhAov5fqWvw1Jnr6ERcU0LuuHaQcrg/Xa4qulQpllBGyxdf6o bj1ytCJUIIt88x1JE4wbJ7U8Xgym1wHBUNJlc= Received: by 10.115.59.4 with SMTP id m4mr1613816wak.104.1216976755912; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.94.8 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:55 +0200 From: "Rene Ladan" To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Cc: Subject: Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ? 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:56 -0000 2008/7/25 Roland Smith : > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an Asus A6JE laptop which has an Intel T5600 CPU. It is >> currently configured as i386 >> with CPUTYPE=prescott. 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): >> >> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (1828.77-MHz 686-class CPU) >> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 >> Features=0xbfebfbff >> Features2=0xe3bd >> AMD Features=0x20100000 >> AMD Features2=0x1 >> 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 features? > > If you want amd64, you should have installed the amd64 architecture. But It seems to be amd64-capable: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-649410.html Side-grading seems quite hard :( : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-December/003008.html > remember that some ports (e.g. flash plugin) are only available for the > i386 architecture. Flash is available for amd64 if you use swfdec :) Probably not worth the hassle, maybe when 7.1 gets released. Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)