Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:06:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINT CPU features table Message-ID: <20020612150308.W28937-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <00d801c20e8c$09ef8e60$2bc5efd1@LUCKYVAIO>
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > [This inquiry found no takers on -questions, so I am trying it on > -hackers] > > I found the list of CPU options in LINT to be not very accessible. What > would be considerably more useful, perhaps in addition to the > information in LINT, would be a table of CPU's, with a checkbox for > each CPU feature that should/could be enabled for this particular CPU. > > Is anybody here aware of such a table? If not, is anybody here able to > perhaps create such a table and add it to the Handbook? I believe it > would be of substantial help to the user. > > "OK, I have an AMD K6-333". [User looks down the "AMD K6" row of the > table]. "I can turn on feature L, M, and Y". > > Thanks in advance, > --Lucky For most cpus, there is little to be gained by fiddling with cpu specific options. Hence, there is little reason to provide a complex table; having all cpu types enabled as in GENERIC is just fine. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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