CPUTYPE="crusoe"

Wed Jan 7 23:08:06 UTC 2009

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Any clues on how to improve the speed or suggestion for optimizations on this laptop?
It is Fujitsu Lifebook P2110 and I think it runs slower than it should.

firefox3 takes around 40 seconds load the home page. 

I am afraid to install linux-flashpluginX, I do not think it will be able to handle it.

Even Dillo (/usr/ports/www/dillo2) and Midori (/usr/ports/www/midori) seem slow 
handling some sites.

By comparison, a Toshiba 3490ct (PIII 700Mhz, 256M RAM) fills a lot faster than the 
Fujitsu (860Mhz, 384M RAM). Both running same 7.1-PRERELEASE and WM/Session Manager: 
Windowmaker/WDM (lightweight).

I was thinking that perhaps optimizing /etc/make.conf and /sys/i386/conf/MYKE
could speed up this computer, but I have not been successful.

I thought setting CPYTYPE="crusoe"

...then I was not sure that CPUTYPE="crusoe" is valid.

According /etc/make.conf I cannot see that "crusoe" as one of the allowed types:
(There is nothing for the Transmeta family at all, which is weird!)
#
# The CPUTYPE variable controls which processor should be targeted for
# generated code.  This controls processor-specific optimizations in
# certain code (currently only OpenSSL) as well as modifying the value
# of CFLAGS to contain the appropriate optimization directive to gcc.
# The automatic setting of CFLAGS may be overridden using the
# NO_CPU_CFLAGS variable below.
# Currently the following CPU types are recognized:
#   Intel x86 architecture:
#       (AMD CPUs)      opteron athlon64 athlon-mp athlon-xp athlon-4
#                       athlon-tbird athlon k8 k6-3 k6-2 k6 k5
#       (Intel CPUs)    core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott
#                       pentium3m pentium3 pentium-m pentium2
#                       pentiumpro pentium-mmx pentium i486 i386
#       (Via CPUs)      c3 c3-2
#   Alpha/AXP architecture: ev67 ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4
#   AMD64 architecture: opteron, athlon64, nocona, prescott, core2
#   Intel ia64 architecture: itanium2, itanium
#
# (?= allows to buildworld for a different CPUTYPE.)
#

However, digging in /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk I can see at some point:
.  if ${CPUTYPE} == "crusoe"
_CPUCFLAGS = -march=i686 -falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0

Why i686?. dmesg says it is a 586-class CPU...?
Is this a bug?

... and a little later on:
if ${CPUTYPE} == "crusoe"
_ICC_CPUCFLAGS = -tpp6 -xiM

A section of the kernel source:

#cpu            I486_CPU
cpu             I586_CPU
#cpu            I686_CPU
ident           MYKE
...
options         CPU_ENABLE_LONGRUN

:uname -a
FreeBSD lifebook 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: 
Tue Dec  2 12:45:03 EST 2008 manny at lifebook:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKE  i386

:dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
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        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Dec  2 12:45:03 EST 2008
    manny at lifebook:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKE
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 (859.34-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineTMx86"  Id = 0x543  Stepping = 3
  Features=0x80893f<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  = 385744896 (367 MB)
avail memory = 367198208 (350 MB)
Crusoe LongRun support enabled, current mode: 2 <867MHz 1300mV 100%>
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <FUJ PAULING2> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xff08-0xff0b on acpi0
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <memory, RAM> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0xfc004000-0xfc004fff irq 3 at device 2.0 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ohci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: <AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcm0: <Acer Labs M5451> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xfc005000-0xfc005fff irq 7 at device 4.0 on pci0
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9756/57 AC97 Codec>
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <bridge> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <bridge, PCI-CardBus> at device 12.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <AcerLabs M5229 UDMA66 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1800-0x180f at device 15.0 on pci0
atapci0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as workaround for 48bit DMA access bug, expect reduced performance
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG> mem 0xfc006000-0xfc006fff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0
iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:98:55:5f
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <serial bus, FireWire> at device 19.0 (no driver attached)
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0xfc007000-0xfc007fff irq 5 at device 20.0 on pci0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
battery1: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
acpi_fujitsu0: <Fujitsu Function Hotkeys FUJ02B1> on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcffff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 859336368 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 114473MB <WDC WD1200BEVE-00WZT0 01.01A01> at ata0-master UDMA66
acd0: CDRW <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212/1F15> at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00 0x01
acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00 0x01
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212 1F15> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device 
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

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