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John Baldwin wrote:

> On 30-Apr-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
>>CARTER Anthony wrote:
>>>I was following a post on current when I changed to CPU_TYPE=p4...
>>
>>Kind of makes you want to check in the Makefile that the CPU_TYPE=
>>is less than or equal to the current CPU_TYPE from dmesg, when
>>doing an "installworld" target.
> 
> Not appropriate if you are doing an installworld into a NFS-mounted root
> directory for a test machine. :)

A non-fatal warning might still be a good idea.
Given what I've read on this list so far, it
might be a good idea to issue a non-fatal
warning for setting CPU_TYPE at all.

Tim