On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > >> Some time back, there was a post on one of the mailing lists that >> suggested it was better to leave either I486_CPU or I586_CPU enabled in a >> kernel config even for much newer processors. For performance reasons, >> AFAIR. Naturally I didn't save that post or a link to it. >> >> Can anyone find that message, or explain why it would be good to keep >> either of those cpu options in a kernel that will only run on much newer >> CPUs? >> > > Um, I don't recall seeing that and have removed them automatically for a > long time. Here is one that suggests keeping I586_CPU with results that > seem less than conclusive. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020702.html > Perhaps this is the one you meant? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190568.html Actually the two threads touch on the same subject, and it seems removal of those options is still desirable on newer CPU's. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ 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"
