From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 29 7:50:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.113.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE7B37B404 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntlworld.com (alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2]) by pc3-cove5-0-cust178.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2TFoKP97681; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:50:21 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Message-ID: <3CA48D3C.2059C957@ntlworld.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:50:20 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yann Ramin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug ? Building kernel/world error on Cyrix References: <3CA3F28B.C28FA8A2@nortenet.pt> <3CA40604.9050205@atrustrivalie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yann Ramin wrote: > > Thats the official name of the Cyrix, although they were far from being > actual 686 CPUs. The clock speed reported is also correct. Cyrix rated > them with a PR rating which, unlike the Athlon XP ratings, was overly > optimistic. Your "200MHz" is a 200PR CPU, which did run at 166MHz, but > had the performance of maybe a 133 Pentium (I had a 166PR, which ran at > 133, until it self destructed). I would try changing CPUTYPE to i586 or > i486. > That is most unfair. I have a Cyrix 6x86 PR166. When I was given a P200 (P54C) my build times went from 6hrs to 5.5. So the Cyrix clocked at 133 wasn't to shabby, was it? [Yes, I know there are other factors.] IIRC it was about a third of the price too. If your chip died, your fan wasn't good enough. > All of this doesn't explain the perl related error you're seeing though > :) Try recvsuping. > > Yann > > Guilherme Oliveira wrote: > > >Hi ! > > > >I'm having serious problems building kernel or world in my Cyrix 200MHZ. > > > >Booting '4.5-RELEASE #0' it detects my processor as being Cyrix 6x86MX > >(167.05-MHz 686-class CPU), that I think it's wrong ('6x86' ?!?!) and > >maybe this is the origin for all my problems. > > > >I've cvsup'd and builded freebsd all the time without problem until +- > >4.5 RELEASE. > >I've tried building GENERIC with the same result. > > > >I have tried building world+kernel with 'CPUTYPE=i686' in make.conf and > >'cpu I686_CPU' (as allways did) in kernel but it gives me error in: > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message