From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 11:45:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E1037B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03094; Sat, 02 Dec 2000 11:43:58 -0800 Message-ID: <3A2950FE.17232BD1@urx.com> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 11:43:58 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke Eckley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD Thunderbird References: <20001202192045.47314.qmail@web11006.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luke Eckley wrote: > > I notice that the FreeBSD site talks about the AMD > K-6, but I could find no information on the Athlon or > Thunderbird. Is the Athlon/Thunderbird supported? If > so, were can I find some info on them. There isn't much to look up on them. They show up as CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (900.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff AMD Features=0xc0440000<,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) This means you use the "cpu I686_CPU" option in your kernel. The system it replaced (a P-200) required 277K seconds to do a setiathome work unit. The Thunderbird only uses 17K seconds. A system update of 4-stable using my upworld shell script required 1840u seconds from cvsup to installworld. A P-II 400 requires ~4420u seconds. I don't think the gnu compilers are optimized for the additional pipelines that the Thunderbird has over the Intel Pentium's. I haven't had it running long enough to find out what I can do for optimizations. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message