From owner-freebsd-qa Sun Sep 2 11:11:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A0737B408; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f82IBNU38776; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f82IBVW04906; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:31 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Larry Rosenman Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Eric Masson Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010902111131.B478@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20010901114903.D11062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010901161054.B13047@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:48:32AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > Ah yes. In that case it only works if you link shared, but then you > > have different problems. I guess this rules out CPUTYPE as a generic > > tunable. If you want the highest possible performance, you give up > > on portibility. You can't have it both... > Is this a *NO*, we're not interested in fixing it? It isn't as simple as that. The problem is hairy. This means that it takes time to come up with a solution that is at least acceptable and it also takes time implementing it. Since a fix is not crucial to the proper functioning of FreeBSD, it will not compete for the highest slots on people's backlog. > If so, some BIG notices should be in /etc/defaults/make.conf around > the CPUTYPE setting. What, besides the notice that setting CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf is the worst of all possible places, are thinking about? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message