From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 05:39:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C976716A418; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:39:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.liberty-hosting.de (mail.smartterra.de [195.225.132.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866E613C45A; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:39:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from home.alpha-tierchen.de (port-212-202-42-154.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.42.154]) by mail.liberty-hosting.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4EA3E9C55; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.alpha-tierchen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by home.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A24F45068; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:38:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.1.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bkoenig) by webmail.alpha-tierchen.de with HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:38:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53349.192.168.1.2.1188538732.squirrel@webmail.alpha-tierchen.de> In-Reply-To: <200708300859.13098.joao@matik.com.br> References: <-3502020561049594852@unknownmsgid> <20070829191310.GA50909@freebsd.org> <200708300859.13098.joao@matik.com.br> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:38:52 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= To: "JoaoBR" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:58:22 +0000 Cc: Roman Divacky , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de, pluknet , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding k9 and k10 to bsd.cpu.mk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:39:47 -0000 JoaoBR wrote: > but athlon64-x2 for S940 and athlon64-am2 for sse3 capable cpus would be > kind of understandable for all > [...] > venice as said in another mail is not clear for all people and certainly it > does not appear on the box or elsewhere I think the names "athlon64-x2" and "athlon64-am2" would be most confusing and ambiguous, because the socket has nothing to do with the feature set of the CPU. Athlon64 X2 CPUs are not only available for socket 940, but also for AM2 and 939. There are SSE3 CPUs that fit into 940, AM2 and 939. Björn