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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:49:35 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?
Message-ID:  <45BABDBF.2090601@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070126171218.2k25n1tt28c08wow@webmail.1command.com>
References:  <20070126171218.2k25n1tt28c08wow@webmail.1command.com>

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Chris H. wrote:
> I've noticed building kernels, that since v. >= 5 that during
> the phase 2/3 all the lines echoed to the screen contain:
> -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 ...

See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf.


> As Pentium have been the "norm" for many years now, why aren't
> these /assumed/?

Because i486 is still the lowest common denominator, at least for 6.x.


> Default? hmmm... not as far as I can tell. Anyway, I would *greatly*
> appreciate any insight on this issue. Do I need to pollute my make.conf
> file to achive a Pentium kernel?

Yes.  Is this so horrible?




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