From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 09:33:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6812437B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 09:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A9543FD7 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 09:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h41GXa0n005833 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 12:33:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EB14C5F.5020805@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 12:33:35 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Determining CPUTYPE for /etc/make.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 16:33:37 -0000 Working on tweaking my builds ... dmesg says: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1001.78-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff AMD Features=0xffffffffc0440000 And according to the example make.conf, my choices are: # (AMD CPUs) athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon-4 athlon-tbird athlon k6-3 # k6-2 k6 k5 But what kind of Athlon do I have? I can rule out the -mp, and I'm pretty sure it's not a -tbird or -4, but can anyone tell from the dmesg output whether it's an athlon or an athlon-xp? Or do I need to pop the case and the heat sink to be sure? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com