Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:32:26 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there an i686 version? Message-ID: <20010912223226.A30754@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0500 References: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness> <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 13), David Loszewski said: > > I just noticed at my login prompt it says, 'FreeBSD/i386', this is > > version 4.3 from the iso, is there a FreeBSD/i686 that anyone is > > aware of since I would assume that this would speed things up. >=20 > i386 refers to the architecture, not the specific processor type. Your > two choices at the moment are FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha. The > GENERIC kernel has optimizations builtin for 486, 586, and 686 already. But a few things will be faster (probably not noticeably so) if you recompile your kernel without the lower-valued CPU values, because otherwise it will use the lowest common denominator for some of the kernel asm routines. Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7oETpWry0BWjoQKURAlP4AJ4k1pOj9GL3SsovStajCIgVnlxIkgCgjngZ xW3t7hhqPthEOu4DCYIbdbQ= =Ko01 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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