Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:58:01 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de> Subject: Re: Adding k9 and k10 to bsd.cpu.mk Message-ID: <200708312058.01966.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20070831194244.GA4565@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <-3502020561049594852@unknownmsgid> <53082.192.168.1.2.1188586737.squirrel@webmail.alpha-tierchen.de> <20070831194244.GA4565@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Friday 31 August 2007 16:42:44 David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Bjrn Knig wrote: > > Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > > >> Intel's first Pentium 4 with SSE3 is called "prescott". We could use > > >> "venice" analogously to represent SSE3-capable Athlon64 CPUs. > > > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > No! NO! AMD core names does not mean the same as Intel ones. > > > Look folks, there is a clear way for this - the CPUID family. > > > > Pentium 4 processors before Prescott belong to family 15. Prescott and > > recent Pentium 4 processors still use 15 as family ID. If I understand > > you correctly then there should be no distinction between these > > processors because they have the same family ID, but there is one in > > bsd.cpu.mk because of SSE3. > > Not quite. CPUID Family is vendor-specific. The Family value for Intel > cannot be compared with the meaning of Family for AMD (or VIA). > > AMD bumps the CPUID Family value for each new major architecture > generation. I have no idea what's the meaning of "Family" by Intel. well ... people 'kind of familiarly' with reading manuals and specs are already havi= ng=20 difficulties here so imagin an average user (unkndefspec) who likes to=20 optimize his kernel (his cpu's kernel of course :) )=20 so as far as there are a cpu options for a freebsd kernel they should be=20 understandable so it might be worse thinking well before doing (=3Dless sup= port=20 =3D less questions =3D less problemas) =2D-=20 Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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