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Date:      Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:31 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Eric Masson <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>
Subject:   Re: cputype=486
Message-ID:  <20010902111131.B478@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org>
References:  <20010901114903.D11062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <XFMail.010901132212.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010901161054.B13047@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org>

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On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:48:32AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Ah yes. In that case it only works if you link shared, but then you
> > have different problems. I guess this rules out CPUTYPE as a generic
> > tunable. If you want the highest possible performance, you give up
> > on portibility. You can't have it both...
> Is this a *NO*, we're not interested in fixing it? 

It isn't as simple as that. The problem is hairy. This means that
it takes time to come up with a solution that is at least acceptable
and it also takes time implementing it. Since a fix is not crucial
to the proper functioning of FreeBSD, it will not compete for the
highest slots on people's backlog.

> If so, some BIG notices should be in /etc/defaults/make.conf around
> the CPUTYPE setting. 

What, besides the notice that setting CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is
the worst of all possible places, are thinking about?

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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