choosing the cputype for core 2 duo?

Josh Carroll josh.carroll at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 05:46:56 UTC 2006


> So the
> „server" has a conroe core 2 duo processor. What would be the best choice in
> make.conf as a CPUTYPE paramater for this processor (other make.conf related
> recommendations also welcome). I have had only experience installing freebsd
> on a bit older amd machines where the choise was obvious.

I think the closest you can use is pentium-m, while adding -msse3 to
CFLAGS. Perhaps something like:

CPUTYPE?=pentium-m
CFLAGS=-O2 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -pipe

Regards,
Josh


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