On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: >> >>> >>> this i386 version has >>> >>> cpu I486_CPU >>> cpu I586_CPU >>> cpu I686_CPU >>> >>> >> Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for >> earlier x86 architectures. >> > > While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a working > kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a number of > low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such as i586_bcopy) > that are conditionalized off of I586_CPU only, even though they provide an > advantage on i686 platforms also. > > -- > -Chuck > so in any case it doesn't hurt to leave all 3. right? I have one last question though, is makeoptions DEBUG=g necessary if i am not debugging or is it always necessary to build the kernel properly? can i safely comment it out? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
