Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:17:37 +0200 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: CPU upgrade vs CPUTYPE Message-ID: <20121219071737.15514j97uh585t0k@webmail.raad.tartu.ee>
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Hello! We have a small server running FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 with Intel Pentium D 945 CPU. As the motherboard/CPU combo is getting rather old, we are considering an upgrade to new motherboard with Xeon E3-1230 CPU. We currently have these CPU settings in /etc/make.conf: CPUTYPE?=nocona in kernel configuration: cpu HAMMER Almost all the software is built from ports, few bits compiled directly from source. Base system is maintained by buildworld. Can we expect the software compiled with above CPU settings to run without problems on the Xeon E3? We had a chance recently to try a temporary motherboard/CPU swap in this server, replacing the CPU with Core i3-2xxx and there were some 'signal 11' errors, but I'm not sure whether this was due to incompatible CPUTYPE or something else. Thanks in advance, -- Toomas Aas
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