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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
>
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