From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 06:39:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9136193; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:39:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ye0-f182.google.com (mail-ye0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780838FC0A; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f182.google.com with SMTP id q5so360377yen.13 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:39:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=822A1LdciUAbmy9LpVtw1of3YaPcbogK/pxKcLx4fAg=; b=zPPVXzrrj5AqyZPdA6ft3IYWZamXvxmqXJP4yOo8SsDLahCyrS4eiBJe65l4Z0HWYE io5LDVlT2Dr38J840K0046AP6Ki1OZaRPAUiPRYCV5HDJtCbkTv0hxsvwKIKBBv4/Fp7 dnYymLlB5kJNT4Ifpu3wbP1RK3gvTOb7STvlDKUEKakioIqk7AmUamP6roTsv76g8auO bT2ClrQHP8udqRxv6xy/XNZqZgHGHI2RnXMdZZjGiSADTsN/2WzMBbqSt03ce+nEfqTU EDY0tJYVCX3nb9Me0/93H8lrUix1r5qjpGz9tRccus9MiCyNsHi/B8ohAAAYVM1RHUz2 CvqA== X-Received: by 10.236.48.37 with SMTP id u25mr4692624yhb.4.1355895871222; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s30sm3744382yhl.21.2012.12.18.21.44.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:44:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50D1543B.1030404@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:44:27 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "amd64 @ FreeBSD" Subject: Re: CPU upgrade vs CPUTYPE References: <20121219071737.15514j97uh585t0k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20121219071737.15514j97uh585t0k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:39:07 -0000 Cross-posting reply to amd64@ for relevance and to get answers from those smart gents. On 12/18/12 23:17, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > We have a small server running FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 with Intel Pentium D > 945 CPU. As the motherboard/CPU combo is getting rather old, we are > considering an upgrade to new motherboard with Xeon E3-1230 CPU. We > currently have these CPU settings > > in /etc/make.conf: > CPUTYPE?=nocona > > in kernel configuration: > cpu HAMMER this is the only possible setting in the kernel conf for amd64 as I was told. This was why (and might answer the make.conf question as well: from b.f.: > Leave it alone. The choices for the cpu directive in the kernel > config file, as described in config(5) and listed in > src/sys/conf/options. (the only choice for amd64 is HAMMER), > have nothing to do with the choices available for the CPUTYPE variable > (which you may want to change to suit your hardware -- these are the > architecture-dependent options available for the -march and -mtune > directives of your compiler that are also recognized by bsd.cpu.mk), > or with the cpu descriptions printed during boot. As for the rest of your questions, I leave them in the hands of those more knowledgeable than I. HTH > Almost all the software is built from ports, few bits compiled directly > from source. Base system is maintained by buildworld. > > Can we expect the software compiled with above CPU settings to run > without problems on the Xeon E3? We had a chance recently to try a > temporary motherboard/CPU swap in this server, replacing the CPU with > Core i3-2xxx and there were some 'signal 11' errors, but I'm not sure > whether this was due to incompatible CPUTYPE or something else. > > Thanks in advance, > -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org