Does FreeBSD-RELEASE 9.1 support AMD K6-II?

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Someone wants to sell me an AMD K6-2 with 128mb MB of ram RAM and a 8 gb GB hard disk, but before deciding if I want it or not I need to know if the latest FreeBSD release works on that hardware. I also want to know if I should install the amd64 version or the i386 one.
Thanks.
 
You can set the K6-2 as CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf and build the system. Maybe this helps to get "more" performance out of it.

Code: 
less /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf

...
# The CPUTYPE variable controls which processor should be targeted for
# generated code.  This controls processor-specific optimizations in
# certain code (currently only OpenSSL) as well as modifying the value
# of CFLAGS to contain the appropriate optimization directive to gcc.
# The automatic setting of CFLAGS may be overridden using the
# NO_CPU_CFLAGS variable below.
# Currently the following CPU types are recognized:
#   Intel x86 architecture:
#       (AMD CPUs)      opteron-sse3 opteron athlon64-sse3 athlon64 athlon-mp
#                       athlon-xp athlon-4 athlon-tbird athlon k8-sse3 k8
#                       geode k6-3 k6-2 k6 k5

CPUTYPE?=k6-2
 
User23 said:
You can set the K6-2 as CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf and build the system.
Maybe this help to get "more" performance out of it.
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With current CPUs being very fast its more or less pointless to rebuild everything with these optimizations, it will be fast anyway.

With such slow CPUs as AMD K6-II even building kernel/base system/ports with that flag everything will still be very slow ;)
 
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