New CPUTYPE default for i386 port

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 7 17:36:17 UTC 2019


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In message <CANCZdfrH23UkyXgLYYKpw2kmYFCL7Hi1W-Vpi3EDahzVp_7gFA at mail.gmail.com>, Warner Losh writes:

>Yea. We've not been quickly self-hosting on this class of machines since
>the move to clang. I have a 32-bit laptop with a ~1GHz Pentium-M and 512MB
>of ram that takes ~36 hours to do a buildworld and another 2 hours or more
>to do a build-kernel. And that machine is quite a bit beefier than the
>Soekris 5501... :(

Last I tried on a 5501 bw+iw+a couple of trivial sized ports took 10 days,
and that was with a good SSD, most of that time were spent on clang
compiling C++ code.


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