From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Oct 27 8:53:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7650137B408; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 08:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9RFr8386492; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:53:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200110271553.f9RFr8386492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU types in kernel configs In-Reply-To: References: <15322.5178.561162.826552@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >Any chance we can get the 'cpu' keyword in config to be optionable? The cpu's >on the alpha arch are pretty much useless and unused at this point. Particularly since the EV8 won't happen. (Just saw a fascinating seminar on the design of the EV8 as it was planned before |c|o|m|p|a|q| killed it by sending the designers to Intel. 8-way multiple issue, four-way simultaneous multi-threading, 8 MB L2 cache and memory controller on-die...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message