[PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Mon Mar 22 19:20:20 UTC 2010
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Not all "small appliances" are flash-based; the Geode-based soekris can
> > use 2.5" disks and has enough memory to run a stock install. The only
> > trouble I've had is with /etc/periodic/daily/470.status-named, which
> > uses an ungodly amount of memory. The AMD Geode is more or less
> > equivalent to a Pentium MMX, and does not have SSE.
> You don't really get into the small to flash install realm until you
> start hitting some of the !x86 embedded boxes. There, you have to
> have a hand-crafted firmware load for each box or a limited range of
> boxes.
I know, I know, I know. My point is that not all !SSE machines are tiny
embedded systems that can't run GENERIC.
DES
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