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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hb47b-0007Mp-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:22:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3A0K63a019182; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:20:06 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3A0K6XA019177 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:20:06 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb3sS-0003cg-GZ for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:06:28 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-13-55.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.13.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:06:28 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-13-55.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:06:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Option better in Kernel Processor family Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1176133179.32538.5.camel@gentoo64> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-13-55.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.126 (Demon Sweat) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7de93210-97ba-4d41-93dd-960777fd761d X-Archives-Hash: 04d64fd8ec48201e95bd68680f8c670f agtdino posted 1176133179.32538.5.camel@gentoo64, excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:39:39 +0200: > Hello, what is the better option 1 or 4 for an x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 > Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > 1. AMD-Opteron/Athlon64 ( Mk8 ) or > 4. Generic-x86-64 > > for default is 4 selected but perhaps is the first option most > optimized. As Fabio says, 1 is better. 4 works, but can't optimize instructions as well so may be slightly slower on true AMD64. 1 would be for kernels built to load on both Intel and AMD x86_64, and is thus the default. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list