optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Asus A6JE laptop which has an Intel T5600 CPU.  It is
> currently configured as i386
> with CPUTYPE=prescott.  But after reading wikipedia, I get the idea
> that I have slightly
> underconfigured my box, i.e. that a better configuration is possible.
> dmesg says (7.0-release):
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz (1828.77-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f6  Stepping = 6
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>   Cores per package: 2

No it's configured correctly. See /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk

> Maybe some amd64 configuration is possible, since it the cpu has AMD features?

If you want amd64, you should have installed the amd64 architecture. But
remember that some ports (e.g. flash plugin) are only available for the
i386 architecture.

Roland
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