From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 17:18:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2694D37B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68ED466E3A; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:18:51 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Raoul Schroeder Cc: Kris Kennaway , clemensF , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPUTYPE and ports Message-ID: <20010829171851.A77977@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010819061017.92A3438FD@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010821181752.V45276@mail.webmonster.de> <20010821130119.H17739@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010830011735.D19000@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010829163426.D77273@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B8D833F.EA5C1E1F@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B8D833F.EA5C1E1F@gmx.net>; from memphis_ms@gmx.net on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:05:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:05:19PM -0400, Raoul Schroeder wrote: > > > > > how come AMD processors aren't supported (yet) bu gcc? >=20 > On a related topic (which had been burning under my fingernails for a whi= le) > The FreeBSD binaries (as on the ISO image) - are they compiled with gcc or > something else. > The reason why I ask: Maybe the binaries would be better optimized than i= f I > compiled it myself. On the other hand, I can run the optimizations > specifically for my machine, so if gcc is used for the binaries, then I'd= be > better off like this. They're compiled by plain old make world on a standard FreeBSD system. When compiling yourself you can enable processor-specific optimizations for an extra warm fuzzy feeling which probably won't make any real-world difference to your system performance :-) Kris --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7jYZqWry0BWjoQKURAusyAJ0eQfdVfFKzqgVacvoVB+tFNdWzOACg/ufX ugLSc7huc7az0+Ek862a5yo= =pnk7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message