Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:00:45 -0700 From: "george vagner" <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com> To: "Kevin Weiss" <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu> Subject: Re: general CPU question and FreeBSD... Message-ID: <002701be4af8$e57be740$0300a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com>
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For just comparison... PPro 200 32 meg ram scsi drives compile world in 4hr,20 min on my system. AMD K6-300 66 MHZ bus with 32 meg ram scsi drives does it in 3hr,30 min so the AMD is a little faster but i wonder what it would take if i declocked down to 200MHZ just to make it an even race. -----Original Message----- From: James A. Mutter <jm7996@devrycols.edu> To: Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:45 PM Subject: Re: general CPU question and FreeBSD... At 10:03 AM 1/28/99 -0600, Kevin Weiss wrote: >After taking the longest time to get my >kernel configured the way I wanted, >I noticed that my CPU_TYPE had >to be "i586" for my AMD-K6 233MHz. Correct. >After looking through some >documentation, I noticed that FreeBSD >says that an"i686" is like a Pentium Pro. i686 isn't 'like' a Pentium Pro - it _is_ a Pentium Pro. To my knowledge, none of the Intel clones have incorporated the 686 instructions on their chips. The system won't boot if you call your AMD a 686. >I was (and have been) under the impression >that a K6 was 686 architecture. Am I wrong? >Or is this the FreeBSD recognizes socket 7 >CPU's? If I used a K6-2 in my system, would it >also fall under the category of "i586"? Yes, most definately. It's nothing to worry about though - the K6/2 is a mighty fast processor, FreeBSD likes it just fine. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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