Chuck Swiger wrote: [snip] > > 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. >
Thank you very kindly for this info tidbit. In my ignorance I had routinely built my kernels with only I686_CPU. Since the few boxen I have are all downlevel every niche I can squeak out some performance is sought after. Thanks indeed! -Mike _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
