From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 5: 6:39 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 41FC737B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E6B43E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17lpyS-0005uN-0P; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:06:32 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.228.211.89]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17lpyP-1vMbFAC; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:06:29 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g82C5f0O087599; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:05:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200209021205.g82C5f0O087599@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: magudexter Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: k6 or i686 optimization on AMD Athlon? Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Sep 2002 04:01:57 PDT." <20020902110157.51962.qmail@web20305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:05:41 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net 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 magudexter writes: > I recently purchase a AMD XP processor belonging to > the k7 family. Even though the /etc/default/make.conf > mentions the k7 processor in CPUTYPE the cc compiler > know only k6 and i686(alias pentiumpro). > > Every build using the make.conf with the CPUTYPE=k7 > make actually a build with march=k6(which belongs to > i586 family). > Support for Athlons depends on the compiler version. gcc-3.2, just imported to -current, has: march=athlon|march=athlon-tbird|march=athlon-4|march=athlon-xp mcpu=athlon|mcpu=athlon-tbird|mcpu=athlon-4|mcpu=athlon-xp|mcpu=athlon-mp If you're using an older version of gcc (like 2.95), then the Athlon is not explicitly supported. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message