Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:23:43 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Scott Carmichael <freebsd@jobeus.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building with CPUTYPE=k7 Message-ID: <20020615172343.B525@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020613154830.J64714-100000@samwise.jobeus.net>; from freebsd@jobeus.net on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:51:26PM -0600 References: <20020613154830.J64714-100000@samwise.jobeus.net>
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:51:26PM -0600, Scott Carmichael wrote: > Next time I make world and build my kernel, I was thinking about using > CPUTYPE=k7 in my make.conf file. Two questions about this though: > > A. To clarify, k7 is the Athlon chip, correct? Yup. > B. Has anyone had problems with this flag? It warns in make.conf about > potential problems, and I was just wondering how common these problems > are. Well, it works for me...although this machine has locked up mysteriously a couple of times in the six months since I built it, but there's plenty of other possible causes for that. I probably wouldn't run with CPUTYPE=k7 on a mission-critical machine, but on a workstation you should have no problems. I doubt you'll notice any difference in performance though. Oh, setting CPUTYPE in make.conf makes it slightly painful to build anything for a box that needs a different CPUTYPE (eg. I obviously like to do the buildworlds for my 486 router on the Athlon box :-) I'd leave CPUTYPE alone if that's a consideration for you as well. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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