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From: "Kim Culhan" <w8hdkim@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader
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On Mon, April 17, 2006 6:23 pm, James Long said:
>> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:58 +0300
>> From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
>> Subject: CPUTYPE=3Dathlon-xp and loader
>> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>> Message-ID: <4442582E.9030507@ispro.net.tr>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some
>> other people had. However there is no clear solution.
>>
>> The CPUTYPE=3Dathlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system
>> instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem
>>  goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005

> I don't propose this as a solution, but as far as I know, the best
> practice is:
>
> CPUTYPE?=3Dathlon-xp

Does anyone know if this improves performance on an ahtlon-xp  ?

-kim

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