From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 23:26:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDC616A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:26:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orchid.homeunix.org (avs107.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.27.52.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7906D43D2F for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:25:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (blackacidevil.orchid.homeunix.org [192.168.1.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by orchid.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0PNPvMT040545 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:25:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Message-ID: <41F6D58B.6090509@orchid.homeunix.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:26:03 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050114) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200501251625.30486.algould@datawok.com> <200501251649.22907.algould@datawok.com> <41F6D0ED.3070802@orchid.homeunix.org> <200501251715.06864.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200501251715.06864.algould@datawok.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/663/Tue Jan 11 23:44:48 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on orchid.homeunix.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: kernel info question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:26:00 -0000 Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:06 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > >>Andrew L. Gould wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:37 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: >>> >>>>Andrew L. Gould wrote: >>>> >>>>>I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450 >>>>>processor. Is the K6-2 an i586 or i686 CPU? >>>> >>>>I *think* it's i586 but have a look at dmesg output. >>>> >>>>There should be something like: >>>> >>>># dmesg | grep CPU >>>>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (1674.44-MHz 686-class CPU) >>> >>>Thanks. (Yep, it's i586.) >> >>I'm not sure: is it a question about CPUTYPE flag in /etc/make.conf? >>Because right after my first reply I saw this in >> >>/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf (about CPUTYPE): >> >>># Currently the following CPU types are recognized: >>># Intel x86 architecture: >>># (AMD CPUs) athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon-4 athlon-tbird >>>athlon k6-3 # k6-2 k6 k5 >>># (Intel CPUs) p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386 >>># Alpha/AXP architecture: ev67 ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4 >>># Intel ia64 architecture: itanium >> >>Probably setting CPUTYPE=k6-2 would be best. >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Karol > > > I'm selecting CPU types in the kernel configuration file, which lists > only i386, i486, i586 and i686. > > Andrew Gould Ah, of course. I586_CPU then. Sorry for the noise, it's late here :) Good luck! Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski