Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:29:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: David Rhodus <drhodus@machdep.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <20040611182919.GA29738@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <40C9F304.8010607@machdep.com> References: <XFMail.20040611030238.conrads@cox.net> <20040611173706.GA28135@dragon.nuxi.com> <40C9F304.8010607@machdep.com>
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:59:32PM -0400, David Rhodus wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:02:38AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > >Don't use ANY CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. > >(I assume you're running in 64-bit mode since you're asking on this list > >and not another). > > > >There is no reason to specify one at all. There is a single CPU core for > >AMD64 right now, so GCC knows exactly what core you have and what to do > >for it. > > Single core for "right now", is that going to be changing soon ? If so > hopefully we > will see both core have their own cache. No, "single" meaingin only one. There aren't 9 different CPU cores such as the i386 has (i386, i486, Pent, PentPro, Pent-II, Pent-III, Pent-4, K6, Athlon, Athlon-XP). Besides "CPUTYPE=opteron", what else could one set CPUTYPE to for 64-bit AMD64?? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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