From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 29 13:11:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D9737B41A for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913E6BDF7; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04863; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:11:08 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2TL9U712301; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Guilherme Oliveira Cc: Yann Ramin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug ? Building kernel/world error on Cyrix [resolved] References: <3CA3F28B.C28FA8A2@nortenet.pt> <3CA40604.9050205@atrustrivalie.org> <3CA49393.E112B4AA@nortenet.pt> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 29 Mar 2002 13:09:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3CA49393.E112B4AA@nortenet.pt> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Guilherme Oliveira writes: > Then I installed world+kernel and builded again with 'CPUTYPE=i686' in > make.conf and 'cpu I686_CPU' in kernel configuration and builded fine > again ... :/ Yes, I ran the IBM 6x86MX PR233 version of that (187 MHz) under Linux and configured every not more Cyrix-specific as "686". I never regetted buying it, given my feelings toward WIntel. There are (or were) several web pages with all kinds of CPU register usage tricks only a few of which made it into the Linux kernel (and probably the same or fewer in the FreeBSD kernel). Most would consider such tweaking a waste of time, but somebody obviously didn't. There was a software package called "set6x86" which had tools I'd call from /etc/rc.local. I very much doubt if it would work with FreeBSD, but maybe you could hack it if you're into that sort of thing. There was something to enable low-power during "cpu idle". Something to fix the "COMA bug" which only some chip versions needed. Something for "Fast IORT" and something for "Enable WT_ALLOC". There was also some "Linear Video Frame Buffer" stuff that was supposed to help considerably (for some useages). I don't know what FreeBSD has for this stuff. I suppose you've looked in LINT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message