Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 6/25/07, Martin Turgeon <turgeon.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed AMD64 6.2 Release on 2 PowerEdge servers, both with
> dual core Xeon (3070 and 5110). I noticed when I was updating the
> sources that it was compiling as an Athlonxp by default. I was wondering
> if I should change the CPUTYPE in make.conf to something else. I read at
> some places that it is not recommended because it could cause problems
> but I thought it would be interesting to start the debate here. Please
> note that I would prefer not to go with the -STABLE or -CURRENT branch
> because these a going to be essential productions servers.
>
> Thank you for your opinions,
>
> Martin

Since I use FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 which is stable now and it's frozen for
making RELENG_7  I didn't set the CPUTYPE in the make.conf , so I
wonder how come you got athlon-xp cpu arch and I didn't see GCC 4.2
doing it in my server.


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