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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:28:46 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is the highest 'safe' CPUTYPE for intel?
Message-ID:  <20021206232846.GB2668@fourtytwo.gamesoc>
In-Reply-To: <20021206171011.166323e8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
References:  <20021206201133.GA77953@leafy.idv.tw> <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net> <20021206171011.166323e8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>

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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:10:11PM -0500, Paul Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:29:37 -0700
> "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > group know that the world and kernel seem quite stable using the athlon-tbird 
> > optimizations.  Not to mention smokingly fast.
> 
>  Is that just a -CURRENT thing, I can't see anything like that in -STABLE's LINT.
> 

-CURRENT use gcc 3.2.1, which has support for pentium[2,3,4] and athlon[tbird,xp,mp,4] architectures.   2.95 which is
the compiler used in -STABLE only has i386 to i686, so can't produce
code directly supporting the newer architectures.

--
Bruce Cran

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