From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 22:47:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558E716A4CF for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:47:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103B243D88 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:47:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by april.chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DD211F96; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:40:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <425C4FE1.3000406@chuckr.org> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:46:57 +0000 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: markzero References: <20050412223859.GA53533@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050412223859.GA53533@logik.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:47:02 -0000 markzero wrote: > Hello, > I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels > for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are > an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should > I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i386? > > Also, as a side note, is there any better way to distribute the compiled > binaries and kernel than NFS mounts? I *really* don't get along with NFS... > > Thanks, > Mark > I don't know what sort of accomodation you mean. The binaries can all be perfectly portable, or, at your option, you can put in various extra options to optimize for your processor. To tell you the trush, if you don't play with the flags, then I see no problem with "slight differences". ssh works great for a lot of applications that need to send products to foreign lands ... it's the "scp" command, in particular, I mean. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------