kernel info question

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:06 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:37 pm, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> >>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >>>I'm about to recompile a kernel on a computer with an AMD K6-2 450
> >>>processor.  Is the K6-2 an i586 or i686 CPU?
> >>
> >>I *think* it's i586 but have a look at dmesg output.
> >>
> >>There should be something like:
> >>
> >># dmesg | grep CPU
> >>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (1674.44-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >
> > Thanks.  (Yep, it's i586.)
>
> I'm not sure: is it a question about CPUTYPE flag in /etc/make.conf?
> Because right after my first reply I saw this in
>
> /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf (about CPUTYPE):
> > # Currently the following CPU types are recognized:
> > #   Intel x86 architecture:
> > #       (AMD CPUs)      athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon-4 athlon-tbird
> > athlon k6-3 #                       k6-2 k6 k5
> > #       (Intel CPUs)    p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386
> > #   Alpha/AXP architecture: ev67 ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4
> > #   Intel ia64 architecture: itanium
>
> Probably setting CPUTYPE=k6-2 would be best.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Karol

I'm selecting CPU types in the kernel configuration file, which lists 
only i386, i486, i586 and i686.

Andrew Gould