Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:37:26 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Performance 686 - 386 Message-ID: <20020307133726.503DDBB26@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Thursday 07 March 2002 01:16 am, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| In my /etc/defaults/make.conf file, the line for CPUTYPE is commented out.
|
| # Currently the following CPU types are recognised:
| # Intel x86 architecture:
| # (AMD CPUs) k7 k6-2 k6 k5
| # (Intel CPUs) p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386
| # Alpha/AXP architecture: ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4
| # [snip]compiled with processor-specific (or higher - see below)
| optimization flags. # If in doubt, do not set CPUTYPE or CFLAGS to
| non-default values. #CPUTYPE=i686
| #NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true # Don't add -march=<cpu> to CFLAGS automatically
| #NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=true # Don't add -march=<cpu> to COPTFLAGS automatically
|
| Does this matter? Or is this option/parameter obtained from the current
| kernel or something...?
No, it means that the option is defaulting to the "default default" (to 486,
I think).
|
| FreeBSD san.rr.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56
| GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
| i386 (On an AMD Athlon 600MHz, 512mb RAM)
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