From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 07:41:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E4F37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrelay2.uni-hannover.de (mrelay2.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7A343FB1 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2])h5FEexS1007617; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:41:00 +0200 (MEST) Received: by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix, from userid 846) id 24CEA4FE; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:40:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:40:55 +0200 From: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: David Yeske Message-ID: <20030615144055.GA13579@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20030614013356.1388.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030614013356.1388.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA C3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:41:05 -0000 On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:33:56PM -0700, David Yeske wrote: > Anyone have a VIA C3? I'm running FreeBSD current > on one and I don't see any gcc flags for the VIA C3. > I think it has MMX and 3dnow, but it does not have SSE? Up to the Ezra kernel the C3 doesn't suppoert SSE. Only the newest C3-kernel named Nehemiah does have it. > I was wondering what gcc flags other VIA C3 users > are using on FreeBSD. I am not sure what > optimizations are safe for this cpu running FreeBSD. > CPU: VIA/IDT Unknown (998.70-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x689 Stepping = 9 > Features=0x803035 This one doesn't seem to support SSE, though I wonder why there is this "unknown". My C3 here is an Ezra and is identified as "Samuel2" with id=067a. However, if you have a C3 without SSE, it's basically a K6 with MMX and 3dNow. So I'm using "CPUTYPE=k6-3" in /etc/make.conf. Up to now this has been working fine for me. cu Gerrit --