From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 21:17:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6B7106567D; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [IPv6:2001:470:a803::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B5F8FC1D; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED80AA581DC; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:17:29 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by mail.geekcn.org (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9Dd+B5zw1BFy; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:17:23 +0800 (CST) Received: from delta.delphij.net (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BA21A58206; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:17:22 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KITHlzH+tD3krVIfuPFRwsPcyin0YebGVknYY3VgEgHbP0q+ubYVWCRIxFy17GyH4 X3sgJbPWbRmB5Wa+QKTVw== Message-ID: <4BA3E9DF.2050303@delphij.net> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:17:19 -0700 From: Xin LI Organization: The Geek China Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Thunderbird/3.0.3 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: <4BA2CE17.2050105@delphij.net> <201003190751.26767.jhb@freebsd.org> <4BA3C41F.3000404@elischer.org> <5BED0721-442C-44B3-8B23-3D94BE5354A9@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=3FCA37C1; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Scott Long , d@delphij.net, Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:17:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/03/19 13:15, Daniel Eischen wrote: [...] > Well, we have nanobsd, but having a suitable install tool > for small flash-based systems where you want a nanobsd-like > setup (readonly filesystems) would be very nice. I try > to write procedures for our embedded systems so others > (neophytes) can create and burn them, but it might be > easier for someone to get started with embedded systems > if they could do it from a release using an install tool. Some computation intense tasks would benefit from enabling certain optimizations which is not suitable for older processors. However, just like John said servers tends to use 64-bit platform more than 32-bit ones, so perhaps we can just dismiss the idea of enabling these optimizations on FreeBSD/i386 platform and focus on FreeBSD/amd64... Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLo+nfAAoJEATO+BI/yjfB4QUH/Rg9nVzjumkcrZbm+JWeDGoD +/he/sb31TDACTSHh5BWtVOPszHIKZ93AiMUWMsbONEm/EGttF9Vpxq7gJPLFFIK /wF5SgQUi2hrwfdHSF3WiAa5jtMEf7UdbWYyHj0ixXqQf3kFbL6RV82ivzmc0Csp 09gVVnWncDMg7ADkP9uYHTNkFhxpGHMSw/eRP0792dVqy5GZKWIbDsjME8GZE3Yd jC4TBmdd7ThfYVdabt9+g/GFmca3khGvuoSfpahJzkeu808E38fzRDYT5zmzATLk 9XLColO4e88Bq7LEBVdLW7jBxnUm7vzMuKD+6q8/GBl9hAbhHVu9xxTa5TWsEj0= =BqYV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----