Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:11:31 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Eric Masson <e-masson@kisoft-services.com> Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010902111131.B478@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org> References: <20010901114903.D11062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <XFMail.010901132212.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010901161054.B13047@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20010902084832.B2510@lerami.lerctr.org>
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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-stable" in the body of the message
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