what should I set for CPUTYPE in make.conf?

Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri almarrie at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 13:28:00 UTC 2007


On 6/3/07, Oliver Herold <noerd at daemonical.org> wrote:
> Nothing at all in my humble opinion. You'll have maybe more problems than
> advantages because of changing this option.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oliver Herold
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:08:38PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> >  On 6/3/07, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I have IBM T40 with dmesg showing the processor as
> > >
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1495.16-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x695  Stepping = 5
> > >
> > > Features=0xa7e9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,PBE>
> > > Features2=0x180<EST,TM2>
> > >
> > > What sould I set for CPUTYPE in my make.conf pentium4m, pentium-m or
> > > something
> > > else?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Momchil
> > >
> >  pentium-m or  pentium3 ;)
> >
> >  --
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> >
> >  -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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Oliver is more expert than I, but _IF_ we will get troubles why do we
have this option in the first place?

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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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