Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Clarke
I have a AMD Athlon 4850e which is described as Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf lists recognised CPU types, but which of athlon64, athlon-mp or athlon-xp is the most appropriate for this CPU? I've been using athlon64 so far without any problems but I don't

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Антон Клесс
I deal with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Windsor (AM2, L2 2048Kb) and wondering of it's CPUTYPE too. 2010/4/24 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk I have a AMD Athlon 4850e which is described as Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf lists recognised CPU types,

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Mike Clarke wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 4850e which is described as Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor. /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf lists recognised CPU types, but which of athlon64, athlon-mp or athlon-xp is the most appropriate for this CPU? I've been using athlon64 so far without

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I think this matters more to third party ports software builds than it does the system. I thought that large pieces of the kernel were designed to not make much, if any, use the various SIMD extensions. Maybe this has

Re: Which CPUTYPE in make.conf?

2010-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I think this matters more to third party ports software builds than it does the system. I thought that large pieces of the kernel were designed to not make much, if any, use the various SIMD