Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:05:55 +0200 From: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ? Message-ID: <e890cae60807250205s35f80be7pdc16c300d3122cf2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <e890cae60807250045n5b0fb277jc09ee646379bd88f@mail.gmail.com> <20080725082654.GA20013@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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2008/7/25 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>: > 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 It seems to be amd64-capable: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-649410.html Side-grading seems quite hard :( : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-December/003008.html > remember that some ports (e.g. flash plugin) are only available for the > i386 architecture. Flash is available for amd64 if you use swfdec :) Probably not worth the hassle, maybe when 7.1 gets released. Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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