Re: cpuflags (optimal compiler flags for building)

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 15:53:15 David Brownlee wrote:
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
>
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 06:56:21PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > Modern AMD CPUs also seem to support it, I don't know about VIA.
> >
> > For AMD CPUs you can really go by family/extended family ID. They didn't
> > mess that part up.
>
> Ah, thanks. That helps for NetBSD 5.x as cpuctl reports
> family/model/extended family, but I don't think we get that from dmesg on
> earlier versions. I'm pretty sure Linux and OpenSolaris report them also.
>
> I could rely on the CPU name reported by cpuctl for AMD, which matches
> dmesg in earlier versions, but that would be NetBSD specific. Arrg.
>
> I may just add a fallback table to convert older NetBSD 'cpu names' back to
> family/extended family
>
> So... does anyone have a reference to a table for AMD family/extended
> family codes? :) I could start with the source for cpuctl, but an official
> list would be nice...

Family 0x6: AMD K7
Family 0xf: AMD K8
Family 0x10: AMD Barcelona/Phenom
Family 0x11: AMD Turion Ultra

Christoph