[bf1942] Freebsd rehashed

mickdunde mickdunde at dcpiraten.ch
Tue Jun 28 15:10:10 EDT 2005


actually it was introduced by intel on the pentium 3, followed by sse2 
on pentium 4 and sse on the latest p4/xeon models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions

Ah, and I will test it as well! Thanks for the info

mickdunde

wokka at justfamily.org wrote:
> Oh wow, testing this now.  SSE, is this referring to the intel extra
> instructions on p4's?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>>Ok,
>>
>>I recreated your scenario and fixed it. The sollution is simple and kind
>>of clear once you know the answer. =)
>>
>>The problem is that FreeBSD 4.x dont have SSE support on by default. So I
>>added the option to the kernel config and rebuild the kernel. (Actually I
>>had to rebuild the whole world due to a idiot of an admin updated
>>sourcefiles (namely me))
>>
>>add to your kernel conf
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>options         CPU_ENABLE_SSE
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>># ps aux | grep bf2
>>games   146  4.9  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:59.46
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>games   153  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:08PM   0:00.21
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>games   152  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>games   151  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.01
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>games   150  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>games   149  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>
>>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>>CPU: Intel Pentium III (930.39-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
>>Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>>real memory  = 1073725440 (1048560K bytes)
>>avail memory = 1041903616 (1017484K bytes)
>>
>>/Bjorn
>>
>>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Charles "wokka" Goldsmith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>No, It pauses for about 2 seconds as it hits the drives and tries to
>>>load, but I get nothing on the screen until it says Illegal instruction
>>>
>>>kama wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Charles "wokka" Goldsmith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I updated my box to 4.11 and then redhat 9 port but no luck, same
>>>>>problem.  Interesting how some people have gotten it to work with this
>>>>>layout while others can't.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Does it start at all? How long before it cores?
>>>>
>>>>I can try to fire up the bf2server on one of our testservers when I get
>>>>home from work.
>>>>
>>>>/Bjorn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> 
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