From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 28 22:19:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49401065670 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:679::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B79B8FC17 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B66587A3; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon.cran.org.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from core.draftnet (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.3.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20100228103155.667ed802@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20100228103155.667ed802@scorpio.seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002282219.06374.bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Subject: Re: compiler flags X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:11 -0000 On Sunday 28 February 2010 15:31:55 Jerry wrote: > I am attempting to redo a Gateway GT5220 PC. The CPU is recognized as: > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2009.16-MHz 686-class > CPU) > > Now, would it be advantageous to set the CPU type in the > '/etc/make.conf' and possibly '/etc/src.conf' files. I'd guess that since amd64 is a relatively new platform there shouldn't be much advantage to specifying the CPUTYPE. On i386 there's a huge difference between an i486 and core2 so it can make sense to specify the CPU, but there's much less difference between the various amd64 CPUs. -- Bruce Cran