From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 17:13:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E338614D76 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11WTSi-000IDH-00; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:48:40 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11WTFk-0002pG-00; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:35:16 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:35:15 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick Kernel Config Question Message-ID: <19990930003515.C10799@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.19990929005320.008bddb0@mail.9netave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990929005320.008bddb0@mail.9netave.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > (it was tempting to begin all those subject lne words with Q's . . .) > > Does anyone know what CPU type to use for an AMD K6/2? I'm not sure whether > it'd be I586_CPU or I686_CPU, and neitehr the Handbook nor LINT is telling me. Did you try compiling all four types in and looking at dmesg output? CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU) ^^^ I trust that answers your question. :-) (Yes, I know someone else has already answered, but an answer telling you *how* to find out what you need to know is generally more useful than one just telling you the answer.) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message