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>