From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 25 17: 9:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DB737B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8Q06m038922; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:36:48 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:36:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What kind of CPU-type when using AMD-K6 2? Message-ID: <20000926093648.A36385@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:07:41PM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 25 September 2000 at 19:07:41 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Dear Sirs. > > Some of our boxes running FreeBSD are based on AMD's K6-2 CPUs. My question is: > > Is AMD K6-2 CPU CPU type i586 or i686? At this time, I use in kernel > the option CPU type i586 but I want to ask for that here not to give > away performance by using a wrong type of CPU. Thanks for your > comments, That's correct. You can confirm this yourself with dmesg: CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping = 2 Features=0x8001bf AMD Features=0x400<> Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message