Hi João! Seems to be that the bulldozer and FX architecture is from GCC 4.6.3 up fully supported.
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 Tamer Am 15.04.2013 16:47, schrieb João Matos: > Great discussion. > > I'm in a similar situation. I'm using a core2duo for about 5 years, and > I think it is time to upgrade it. > > But, after reading this, there are still to doubts: > > 1) r the amd processors really fully supported? When I compile my kernel > (amd64), for instance, while looking for "Processor Type" there are 3 > options for Intel and just one for AMD. Wouldn't it be kinda generic? > > 2) durability: I'm kinda traumatized with AMD. Maybe I didn't have luck, > or Brazil is just too hot, but before I change to Intel, I had to buy a > computer a year: mobo problem, socket changed, then replace everything. > I'm very exited with the AMD advantages discussed here, but If it is to > last a year, I'm out. > > Back then, when I used amd, I liked the performace and the price very > much. I found out about and came to > Gentoo just when I was looking for a optimized distro to my brand new > athlon64 processor - that lasted a year. > > Thank you, > -- > João de Matos > Linux User #461527 > Graduado em Engenharia de Computação > UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
