Subject: Re: cpuflags and pentium M
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Ja'far Railton <zen25058@zen.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/25/2005 01:10:14
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 06:56:07PM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> 2.0.2 doesn't properly identify a Pentium M "Dothan" processor; this was
> added to HEAD in revision 1.15 of sys/arch/i386/i386/identcpu.c, which
> doesn't appear to have been pulled up to the 2.0 branch.
> 
> Since cpuflags uses the hw.model (among other) sysctls to determine
> where it is running, it's unable to properly identify your processor and
> falling back to a configuration known to work on generic i686 machines.
> 
> Hope this helps.

It sure does - thanks. I'll just put -march=pentium3 in mk.conf for now.

Best

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Ja'far ibn Richard Railton