Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:40:12 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Martin Turgeon" <turgeon.martin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64 Message-ID: <499c70c0706242240n1c5f3177q7645ae97387db701@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <467EFF06.6020902@gmail.com> References: <467EFF06.6020902@gmail.com>
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On 6/25/07, Martin Turgeon <turgeon.martin@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed AMD64 6.2 Release on 2 PowerEdge servers, both with > dual core Xeon (3070 and 5110). I noticed when I was updating the > sources that it was compiling as an Athlonxp by default. I was wondering > if I should change the CPUTYPE in make.conf to something else. I read at > some places that it is not recommended because it could cause problems > but I thought it would be interesting to start the debate here. Please > note that I would prefer not to go with the -STABLE or -CURRENT branch > because these a going to be essential productions servers. > > Thank you for your opinions, > > Martin Since I use FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 which is stable now and it's frozen for making RELENG_7 I didn't set the CPUTYPE in the make.conf , so I wonder how come you got athlon-xp cpu arch and I didn't see GCC 4.2 doing it in my server. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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