On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected,
you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string:
CPU_FLAGS_X86=""
and then do "emerge -puDN --with-bdeps=y @world". This is because
CPU_FLAGS_X86 is not empty by default. It contains sse and sse2 by
default, because these are supported by all 64-bit CPUs.
What I did, I commented out the whole line and ran it that way.
If you comment it out, it will have default values. If you set it to an
empty string, you should be able to see which packages make use of the
default flags (like sse and sse2.)
Note it's a pretend emerge (-p). Just to check which packages you have
installed that make use of these flags.
One last question for anyone who has done this recently. When finished,
I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all
on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo. Would there be any point in upgrading to
a whole new rig or is what I have about as fast is reasonable to build?
I don't do gaming or anything. Even the GTX 650 video card is likely
overkill for what I do here. The older 200 series card is working just
fine. On one hand, my current build is several years old. On the
other, computers seem to have reached their peak. I'm sure there is
more powerful systems out there but would I be any better off with one?
Since the AM3+ and its C32/G34 Opteron counterparts are the last and
best x86 cpus without ME/PSP I would say you are better off with what
you have - the best piledriver cpus like the FX-8350+ are still able to
play the latest games and in a VM via IOMMU-GFX if you want.
In any case I would consider a OpenPOWER (ppc64/ppc64le) arch system
(like the blackbird or talos 2) as an upgrade path instead of any futher
x86 stuff as there aren't any black boxes, there is
documentation+firmware sources and the cpus are made in usa.