From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 3:28:55 2002 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 83E3437B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 03:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E99A743E13 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 03:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 12166 invoked by uid 417); 2 Jul 2002 10:28:52 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 10:28:52 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.20.175]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:28:51 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:28:06 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: BSD baby Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: are things optimized for i686 if that's in our kernel? Message-Id: <20020702062806.60fb36fb.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <20020629210123.A14439@mail.hitmedia.com> References: <20020629210123.A14439@mail.hitmedia.com> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:01:23 -0700 BSD baby wrote: > If I recompile the kernel to show that I've got dual CPU i686, > does the software I install after that (from ports or source) > *optimize* itself for that CPU? Edit /etc/make.conf; specifically use CPUTYPE=i686. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message