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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:48:08
Message-Id: 4EC62982.1080709@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 2011-11-18 01:04, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:13:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >
4 >> Right now I have everything built with rather CPU-specific
5 >> CFLAGS.
6 >>
7 >> Specific L1/L2-cache-sizes and stuff, set after doing something
8 >> like "gcc -Q --help=target -march=native" .... (gentoo wiki).
9 >>
10 >> I wonder if this C2D-E6600-specific stuff would boot on the
11 >> i7-2600k? Yeah, I could just try it.
12 >>
13 >> But maybe I should do something to prepare that migration?
14 >
15 > I did a new installation as the old one had started life on an
16 > Athlon64 about 8 years ago and then migrated to the C2D. But it
17 > will probably work as long as you kernel included support for both
18 > types of hardware.
19 >
20 > If you're feeling adventurous, GCC 4.6, currently masked for
21 > testing, has specific -march options for the i7 and Sandybridge i7,
22 > according to the Gentoo Wiki CFLAGS page.
23 >
24 > Using 4.5.3 and -march=native, I had a couple of showstopping
25 > build failures, that were fixed by switching to -march=core2
26 > -mtune=generic.
27
28 Thanks a lot. Will try. hardware order planned for next week maybe.

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