From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 6 15:27:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCE937B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.166.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519DE43E9C for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (12266209.resnet.ed.ac.uk [10.6.0.100] (may be forged)) by grassmarket.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB6NRQh05929; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:27:26 GMT Received: from fourtytwo.gamesoc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6NSki5002891; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:28:46 GMT (envelope-from bruce@fourtytwo.gamesoc) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by fourtytwo.gamesoc (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB6NSkMB002890; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:28:46 GMT Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:28:46 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Paul Murphy Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the highest 'safe' CPUTYPE for intel? Message-ID: <20021206232846.GB2668@fourtytwo.gamesoc> References: <20021206201133.GA77953@leafy.idv.tw> <200212061429.37743.cbiffle@safety.net> <20021206171011.166323e8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021206171011.166323e8.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message