From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 8 11:42:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6131153DD; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA71479; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:42:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: rezidew@rezidew.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix, AMD, Intel References: <19990608122155.1225.qmail@kemicol.rezidew.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Jun 1999 20:42:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: rezidew@rezidew.net's message of "Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:21:55 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 48 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected from -chat to -questions] rezidew@rezidew.net writes: > I have just bought two (new?) machines. > > one is a AMD-K62 (350) > the other is a Cyrix MII (366) > > I have several questions... > > #1) how should I compile my kernel 'i[3456]86'? The following should run on both: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU > #2) when I boot up the AMD with freebsd it's > detected as a 586 running at some where around > 356.22MHz. Why only 586? Why not? The K6-2 is a Pentium clone, even if it runs at PII speeds. Here's a snippet from dmesg on one of my boxen: CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping=12 Features=0x8021bf > #3) when I boot up the Cyrix with OpenBSD it's > detected as a 686 running at 251.36Mhz. > should I expect the same with FreeBSD? why > does this happen? is there something wrong > with the processor? Yes: it was made by Cyrix. > #4) I have a Dual Processor Pentium-Pro-200. > If I compile in SMP for that machine, > on which of the three machines should I > expect to see the best performance? (all > things being equal) The best performance doing what? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message