CPUTYPE?= in make.conf

[Gleb Popov]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 4:11 AM tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:14:28AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>
> >Intel.com says AVX extensions should be present in both.
> >
> >Does intel.com even publish per cpu or per family
> >exhaustive lists of all the instructions present?
> >ie: So users don't have to collate all the base instruction
> >plus extension set terminology docs separately.
>
> I don't know about exhaustive. I was using this:
> http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2690-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K
>
> The other way of getting them is installing sysutils/cpuid and running
> that.
>
> You're right about AVX, that's my error.
>

Some time ago I wrote sysutils/hs-cputype utility, which infers you CPU
type from clang's output, coerce it to CPUTYPE possible values and prints
that to you. It also allows you to compare two CPUTYPEs in terms of
features.


> thanks,
> --
> J.
>