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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:25:28 -0800
From:      Eric M Logan <ericmlogan@mediaone.net>
To:        kstewart@urx.com
Cc:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make.conf....
Message-ID:  <3AC159A8.66AB2EC6@mediaone.net>
References:  <XFMail.20010326194354.conrads@home.com> <3AC143E1.99B1C16D@mediaone.net> <3AC158E8.8AD10200@urx.com>

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Interesting point.  So what would you select?  i586? Or not opts at all in the
make.conf?

Kent Stewart wrote:

> Eric M Logan wrote:
> >
> > Out of curiosity, since the Athlon is a 7th generation chip, shouldn't one use
> > i686/pentiumpro in the make.conf?
>
> Not really because the Athlon has pipes not included in i686's.
> Nothing really takes advantage of it on FreeBSD. I wonder at times if
> my setiathome wu's on W2K are 20% faster than FreeBSD because the
> compiler they used takes advantage of the Athlon architecture.
>
> Kent
>
> >
> > Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> >
> > > On 27-Mar-2001 Eric M Logan wrote:
> > > > Perhaps somebody can shed some light on this.  Doing a "man gcc", I see
> > > > that the "march=" variable supports i386, i486, pentium, and
> > > > pentiumpro.  I'm trying to build for a k6-2 and a k6-3 cpu.  I would,
> > > > and can only, use march=pentium right?  I ask because I've seen some
> > > > people specify march=k6 but looking through the man pages, I see nothing
> > > > about the k6*.  Any help would be great, thanks.
> > >
> > > I've been using CPUTYPE=k6, which yields march=k6, on my Athlon system with no
> > > ill effects.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Conrad Sabatier
> > > conrads@home.com
> > >
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> Kent Stewart
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