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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:58:27 +0100
From:      Yann Berthier <yb@sainte-barbe.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is the highest 'safe' CPUTYPE for intel?
Message-ID:  <20021206215827.GA42537@hsc.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net>
References:  <20021206201133.GA77953@leafy.idv.tw> <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net>

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On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:

> On Friday 06 December 2002 01:11 pm, leafy wrote:
> > CPUTYPE=pentium4 is know to be broken. What is the known working highest
> > CPUTYPE then? pentium3 or pentium2?
> 
> Well, I know this isn't quite what you were asking, but I wanted to let the 
> group know that the world and kernel seem quite stable using the athlon-tbird 
> optimizations.  Not to mention smokingly fast.
> 
> Incidentally, I know this is a scary, scary thing, but how do I turn off the 
> various debugging options that are on in GENERIC?  I'd like to compile a 
> hotrod kernel/world for testing...is it just a matter of commenting out 
> DEBUG=-g?

   You need mainly to comment the INVARIANTS and WITNESS options, and to
   remove the debug options from malloc (see most notably the a & j
   flags for malloc.conf)

   UPDATING should give you more info on that subject I think.

   Cheers,

   - yann

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