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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600
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On 6 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> PL> My PC has an AMD Athlon 600, so in /etc/make.conf should I have i686 or k7?
> Find your answer (k7) in /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk

I didn't have .../share/mk/ so I went out with google and downloaded
bsd.cpu.mk -- Wouldn't it be nice if "mv" had a flag to create directories
if they don't exist?  Same with the command "touch."

> I've been using "k6-2" for my AMD pre-Athlon CPU for a year or so,
> with no known problems, but do read the warnings in
> /etc/defaults/make.conf about it.  The default is i386.

Defaults are made to be over-ridden and surpassed as HW allows. ;-)

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