Garrett Cooper wrote:
Jorn Argelo wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with,
"# make buildworld"
or
"# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF"
(or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I
have
"CPUTYPE?=nocona" set in my "/etc/make.conf" file the compiler seems to
head
back to a default of "-march=prescott" when compiling many of the
functions
on a Dual Xeon 3.6g (nocona) machine!
This doesn't happen when compiling for other machine types, I've
tried it
on a
Dual PentiumPro, Dual PII, Dual PIII setting the CPUTYPE to the correct
cpu
type and the -march sticks to the assigned cpu type through all
operations
and produces nice quick optimized code.
Why is this so?
Is it because the "nocona" machine type optimization refers to the
EMT64
technology and thus is rejected when compiling for i386 targets rather
than
amd64 or emt64 targets and Gcc rejects it?
That's right. AFAIK the Nocona core is a prescott with EM64T support
(feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Basically you have an i386
version of FreeBSD, and with EM64T instructions enabled GCC will
build a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I think that's the reason it
switches back to prescott.
Most of the time you're right. However (for starters), some nocona
chips feature 2MB cache instead of 1MB cache:
<http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2447&p=2>.
I'd have to look more in depth, but OTOH the nocona also featured some
architecture upgrades, other than just the "64-bit'ness"
I heard that gcc 3.4.x was pretty funky with the nocona processors
though, and prescott's a more stable target; that changed a bit in gcc
4.x I think. Or maybe I'm just mixing up nocona and yonah in this case.
-Garrett
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Yonah is the Pentium M version of the first Core generation I believe.
Or maybe it was still a Netburst, I can't remember.
Jorn
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