From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 9:24:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E743637B421 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020615162345.ZRDE4626.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:23:45 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5FGNiV64027; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:23:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5FGNhpg010443; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:23:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:23:43 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Scott Carmichael Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building with CPUTYPE=k7 Message-ID: <20020615172343.B525@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20020613154830.J64714-100000@samwise.jobeus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020613154830.J64714-100000@samwise.jobeus.net>; from freebsd@jobeus.net on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:51:26PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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