Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 11:24:46 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: fbsdmail@dnswatch.com, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPUTYPE??? Message-ID: <E1OIJDi-000DGf-Ej@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <ba41a3308baea6c3067d421b2b3db011.dnswclient@www.dnswatch.com>
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> Seems "athlon-mp" is the best choice. After building some ports, > I noticed some of them returned the string: MCPUTYPE=athlon-mp > So unless anyone would care to suggest a better choice, I'm going > to use CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp :) A better option would be to switch to 64 bit and then stop worrying about the CPUTYPE :-) Those AMD processors work very nicely in 64 bit mode. It has to be said that actually on a modern processor I will doubt you will notice much (if any) difference tweaking the CPU type. When I first came to FreeBSD I used to obessively tweak optimisation settings all over the place. These days I leave more or less everything at the defalts, and life is perfectly happy... certainly given the CPU you ar switching to, I would just not bother setting CPUTYPE. try it "as-is", and if i is too slow then start looking for optimisations. -pete.
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