Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:29:42 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: edwin@mavetju.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: customizing CPUTYPE Message-ID: <F117XySQ8Jgkk2luvGO0000a726@hotmail.com>
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I have heard that setting this to "k6" yields slightly better results for the Athlon. When you set the CPU type to K7 in the make.conf, it passes -march=k6 to GCC. I have not tested this myself and I personally use i686 for my Athlons, just my $0.01 >On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:22:56PM +0100, F . Xavier Noria wrote: > > I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700, do you know whether there is a suitable > > value for CPUTYPE to customize make.conf? > >When you boot your kernel, it will tell you what kind of CPU you have: > >Dec 24 07:18:48 k7 /kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1029.99-MHz >686-class > CPU) > >So for me it would be 686. > >Edwin > >-- >Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org >edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: >------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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