Via C3 support under FreeBSD

Damian Gerow damian at sentex.net
Mon Jun 2 13:48:34 PDT 2003


Thus spake Damian Gerow (damian at sentex.net) [02/06/03 16:31]:
> One thing I haven't tried is leaving out the I586_CPU in the kernel config
> and seeing if that will result in any changes.  Hopefully I won't be
> shooting myself in the foot -- just compiling right now.
> 
> (It looks like I just can't set CPUTYPE=i686 in make.conf at this point.)

This indeed is true.

So, in order to use & compile on the Via C3 Ezra, I need to set CPUTYPE=i586
or CPUTYPE=i586/mmx (both seem to work) in /etc/make.conf, and I need at
least I686_CPU in my kernel configuration file.  Seems odd to me, but at
least it works.


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