From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 12 13: 5:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d35.as28.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.69.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9B437B401 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5CK729I029459; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:07:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5CK6iV8029456; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:07:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:06:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Lucky Green Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINT CPU features table In-Reply-To: <00d801c20e8c$09ef8e60$2bc5efd1@LUCKYVAIO> Message-ID: <20020612150308.W28937-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > [This inquiry found no takers on -questions, so I am trying it on > -hackers] > > I found the list of CPU options in LINT to be not very accessible. What > would be considerably more useful, perhaps in addition to the > information in LINT, would be a table of CPU's, with a checkbox for > each CPU feature that should/could be enabled for this particular CPU. > > Is anybody here aware of such a table? If not, is anybody here able to > perhaps create such a table and add it to the Handbook? I believe it > would be of substantial help to the user. > > "OK, I have an AMD K6-333". [User looks down the "AMD K6" row of the > table]. "I can turn on feature L, M, and Y". > > Thanks in advance, > --Lucky For most cpus, there is little to be gained by fiddling with cpu specific options. Hence, there is little reason to provide a complex table; having all cpu types enabled as in GENERIC is just fine. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message