Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:26:54 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ? Message-ID: <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <e890cae60807250045n5b0fb277jc09ee646379bd88f@mail.gmail.com> References: <e890cae60807250045n5b0fb277jc09ee646379bd88f@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Asus A6JE laptop which has an Intel T5600 CPU. It is > currently configured as i386 > with CPUTYPE=prescott. But after reading wikipedia, I get the idea > that I have slightly > underconfigured my box, i.e. that a better configuration is possible. > dmesg says (7.0-release): > > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (1828.77-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> > AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > Cores per package: 2 No it's configured correctly. See /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk > Maybe some amd64 configuration is possible, since it the cpu has AMD features? If you want amd64, you should have installed the amd64 architecture. But remember that some ports (e.g. flash plugin) are only available for the i386 architecture. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiJjk4ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWA1gCeIDre4nnxIJvhNUUg0NKxEjUI BKkAnj94MhEJfcCsQp7HXr2AZSMxHPsR =SIZo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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