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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:55 +0200
From:      "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?
Message-ID:  <e890cae60807250205s35f80be7pdc16c300d3122cf2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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2008/7/25 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>:
> 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<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>   Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
>>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>>   AMD Features2=0x1<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 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
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http://www.rene-ladan.nl/

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