From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJL4e-0002vO-G8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:13:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8P153Xo023034; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:05:03 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8P152XS005151 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:05:03 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E5DEA2A7553; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:11:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3442A752A; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:11:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 7950573; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:11:34 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] sempron make options Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:11:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: William Tetrault References: <1127513537.21021.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200509250020.56871.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200509241905.12980.xcourse97@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200509241905.12980.xcourse97@charter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509250311.31511.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 76c0f115-601e-4b44-9c38-30d706e099f7 X-Archives-Hash: f12ba0b0d08de63b96900a46681c5cee On Sunday 25 September 2005 02:05, William Tetrault wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2005 05:20 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > hi, > > > > the sempron is a 32bit (!!) CPU! > > > > Some semprons have deactivated 64 bit (they are defective in the 64bit > > part or superflous ones, that were 'downgraded') but you can not be sure, > > that your sempron is one of them with 64bit. > > > > So use the athlon-xp flags with them. > > Hello yourself! > > Revision D Sempron cpus in several speed grades, and apparently all > revision E Semprons have had their 64-bit capabilities switched on. Check > theinquirer.net and amdzone.com for the speed grade details. I don't and > won't have first-hand experience with this, but this info can be checked > out easily. Keep that open mind handy, folks! > > Bill Tetrault > Madison, WI I checked amd.com and in their docs are no signs, that the sempron has any 64 capabilities. But some of them are pretty old. So you may be right or not, maybe I am right or wrong - someone should ask the AMD support directly. ;) -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list