Re: Adding k9 and k10 to bsd.cpu.mk

Roman Divacky wrote:

I dont think the name matters THAT MUCH, the important thing is
to support the newer CPUs with FreeBSD infrastructure... name
it "blahblah" if you wish

I agree.

Intel's first Pentium 4 with SSE3 is called "prescott". We could use
"venice" analogously to represent SSE3-capable Athlon64 CPUs.

Björn


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