CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 3/15/07, cpghost <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> > I have one of these
> >
> > CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x691  Stepping = 1
> >   Features=0x380b035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> >
> > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?
> > motherboard_id=81
> >
> > And 6.2-RELEASE p2
> >
> > When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build
> > just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken.  Most compiling
> > attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error.
> >
> > Now that I've entered the FreeBSD world and am building everything
> > from source, I would like to take advantage of that by compiling for
> > my system.
> >
> > Does anyone have a similar system?  And what CPUTYPE or local tuning
> > do you recommend?
>
> I have
>
> CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (533.36-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
>   Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX>
> real memory  = 528416768 (503 MB)
>
> running FreeBSD 6.2 without problems. The key here is NOT to set
> CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. Just use the defaults and you're fine.
>
> > A dmesg for the system is available at
> >
> >   http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -j
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
>
> Regards,
> -cpghost.
>
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As cpghost said, there is no big difference when you make an
optimization for the time being.

You can also check http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags and see what
cflag you can use with it.


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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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