From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 19:55:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F016116A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:55:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E9743D62 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:55:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740E8B810; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:55:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20060116214414.P76671@hex.athame.co.uk> References: <20060110235259.N1006@ganymede.hub.org> <4294ECA5-C8B6-484A-94BA-5EBC61498280@khera.org> <20060114012450.U28752@ganymede.hub.org> <20060116214414.P76671@hex.athame.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:55:41 -0500 To: Adriaan de Groot X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: first time with a 64bit CPU ... kernel config ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:55:50 -0000 On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Vivek Khera wrote: >> On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> Just curious, but is there anything i want to add to make.conf? >>> My i386 boxes, I have: >>> CFLAGS= -O -mpentium -pipe -g -DKVA_PAGES=512 >>> COPTFLAGS= -O -mpentium -pipe -DKVA_PAGES=512 >> >> nope. if anything, you can set CPUTYPE=nacona for your Intel >> EM64T box, but I don't see any difference than leaving it blank. > > Probably because the CPU is called a Nocona by Intel; presumably > the CPUTYPE flag would also want it spelled correctly. That said, > there used to be no point in setting CPUTYPE because there's just > one amd64 instruction set and optimization profile that gcc knows > about - I'm not sure if that is still the case. > > Please see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004- November/002661.html for the last paragraph commentary. Personally, for the co-lo facility I like to have a single buildworld image and packages to install on everything so I don't specify any CPUTYPEs.