From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 22:23:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C9F37B401 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78C443E13 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-34-27.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.34.27]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5U5NGVU029837; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:23:17 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: BSD baby , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: are things optimized for i686 if that's in our kernel? Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:23:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020629210123.A14439@mail.hitmedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20020629210123.A14439@mail.hitmedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206300023.16943.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 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 Saturday 29 June 2002 11:01 pm, BSD baby wrote: > simple question: > > If I recompile the kernel to show that I've got dual CPU i686, > does the software I install after that (from ports or source) > *optimize* itself for that CPU? Your kernel configuration file only affects the compilation of your kernel. See /etc/defaults/make.conf for general make optimizations. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message