Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:24:31 -0700 From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> To: "'Mike Silbersack'" <silby@silby.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: LINT CPU features table Message-ID: <002d01c21573$d692ea50$0100a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> In-Reply-To: <20020612150308.W28937-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote: > 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. If only a few CPU's would benefit from the CPU-specific options, creating a table of CPU options for those few CPU's should be all the simpler. What I am I missing? Thanks, --Lucky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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