CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader

[Jonathan Noack]

Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> James Long wrote:
>>> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:58 +0300
>>> From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen at ispro.net.tr>
>>> Subject: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader
>>> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>> Message-ID: <4442582E.9030507 at ispro.net.tr>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some 
>>> other people had. However there is no clear solution.
>>>
>>> The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system 
>>> instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the 
>>> problem goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005
>>>
>>> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-current&a=2004-10&m=435817
>>>
>>> I wonder if this will ever be fixed or I shouldnt use 
>>> CPUTYPE=athlon-xp anymore on FreeBSD because of this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Evren
>>
>> I don't propose this as a solution, but as far as I know, the best 
>> practice is:
>>
>> CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp
>>
>> Note the question mark.
>>
>> I don't know that this will solve your problem, just pointing out
>> the correct syntax, for whatever CPUTYPE you decide to use.
> 
> Doesnt the ? mean that it should be set if it is not set yet? I can give 
> it a try to this, next time I build world however I dont think that it 
> will compile loader without cputype athlon-xp set so...

Huh?  CPUTYPE is optional.  Everything should compile and work without it.

> I just thought that loader doesnt need to be so optimized anyhow. It is 
> more important that it loads at boot and there are people on this list 
> who has problems with the optimizations and I found some more on google. 
> So the best is to either fix the code in loader or do not optimize it.

Yeah, like me.  I was the one who originally reported this problem.  But 
over a year ago there was an attempt to fix the code by not optimizing 
it.  This resolved the problem for me.

-Jonathan