On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:20:30PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 21:07:10 David O'Brien wrote: > > > opterons are not easy but it is already kind of advanced cpu so > > > could be > > > > Why are Opteron's any harder? > > because all of them are 64bit but some older ones are not SSE3 capable, < 250 > I guess now but 252 is but not 100% sure It's not Opteron model # specific - but silicon revision specific. There are rev C0 model 250's, along with rev CG, and rev E. Same for athlon64 - older ones don't support SSE3, newer ones do. > people 'kind of familiarly' with reading manuals and specs are already > having difficulties here so imagin an average user (unkndefspec) who > likes to optimize his kernel (his cpu's kernel of course :) ) > > so as far as there are a cpu options for a freebsd kernel they should > be understandable so it might be worse thinking well before doing > (=less support = less questions = less problemas) BTW, the AMD offically sanctioned spelling for GCC 'march' is "amdfam10" -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon? Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting"Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 23:43:48 UTC
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