Subject: Re: -msupersparc not cool for 1.5 kernel on SS20?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/15/2002 08:11:17
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I have a SS20 running 1.5.4_ALPHA (recent netbsd-1-5 branch).
> Following suggestions from this list, I installed the cpuflags pkg and
> put
>
> .sinclude "/usr/pkg/share/mk/cpuflags.mk"
>
> in /etc/mk.conf and rebuilt libcrypto and ssh. (ssh is the critical
> one because the DH code for the ssh2 KEX is in ssh, not libcrypto.)
> This sped up ssh2 by a factor of 2.
But for the kernel, it is disabling all optimization. This is a problem
I've brought up on the toolchain list, and am planning to fix.
In any case, my recommendation is that you DO NOT use the cpuflags package.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>