From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 9:54:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d173.as21.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.139.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0976537B401 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5MGuGcv043880; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:56:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g5MGuDPW043877; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:56:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:56:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Lucky Green Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: LINT CPU features table In-Reply-To: <007d01c219c3$102d8150$206694d1@LUCKYVAIO> Message-ID: <20020622115350.D43492-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the > section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various > CPU options in LINT if somebody who fully understands what these options > do is willing to spend 30 minutes on the phone with me answering > questions about the options. > > Any takers? > > Thanks, > --Lucky Despite your enthusiasm, it's still a rather pointless exercise. To make explaining the cpu options worthwhile, you must show that only specifying I686 is sufficiently more optimal than specifying I686/I586/I486/I386. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message