Intel EM64T Processor Platform

Mon May 30 21:00:59 PDT 2005

On Sun, 29 May 2005, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 12:00:29AM -0800, Jack L. wrote:
>>
>> What cpu type should I use for make.conf and the kernel if I want to
>> use the AMD64 platform?
>
> You do not need to have anything special in make.conf, and the GENERIC
> kernel for amd64 contains the necessary 'machine' and 'cpu' paramaters.

This is not entirely correct. Sure, your system will run without anything 
special in make.conf; But if you want decent performance, you probably 
want to set CPUTYPE to "nocona" in order to get a build that is tailored 
to your cpu (SSE3, etc). More information on what that CPUTYPE enables is 
available in /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk.

Cheers,
Andy

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