From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 09:26:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E4616A405 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:26:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F7213C494 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp208-119.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.208.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l129Q12i094299 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:56:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:55:42 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <270372.75801.qm@web58904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <270372.75801.qm@web58904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702021955.44243.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Thomas Roberts Subject: Re: Newbie Sempron/ISO question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:26:32 -0000 --nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 02 February 2007 15:46, Thomas Roberts wrote: > While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said > the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode > and if anyone has this CPU they should be using the > i386 ISO. I believe you can get 64 bit Semprons but they are AM2 or AM3 only. > Whether I use the i386 or amd64 ISO I will be putting > the CPUTYPE?=3Dk8 in my make.conf file so my question is > "Since I am specifying the CPUTYPE should I stay with > amd64 or start over with i386?" I am not worried > about not having 64-bit capabilities, but I am worried > that using the i386 ISO will not use the CPU to its fulest. I don't think that running it in i386 mode will have a negative impact on=20 performance - possibly the reverse due to cache size. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFwwOY5ZPcIHs/zowRAlBNAJ9mDhmKaX3REe1r1eeFPUhIrAtXXQCfVJv2 Ax2mN3toEyoeC99sEJpxThY= =KS2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2133598.qFssjX7HjL--