From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 12:08:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF2C106566C for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se) Received: from mail1.cil.se (mail1.cil.se [217.197.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0A38FC18 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:08:46 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:56:40 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Change CPU Thread-Index: ActcqCE5xY7XlsoQQSud6De3bPFazw== From: "Jon Otterholm" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Change CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:08:47 -0000 Hi. =20 I am going to upgrade my CPU on a system that I compiled both world and kernel on. The current CPU is Core i5-670 and I'm changing to Xeon X3470. Will I be able to boot my system or has GCC specific flags for i5 that won't work with X3470? =20 Can I prepare the system in any way to make it boot using the new CPU? =20 //JO