Re: cpu vs CPUTYPE

Dewayne Geraghty <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jun 2026 09:29:50 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jan,
I use these in my make.conf for an older xeon,
ARCH= amd64
ARCHLEVEL= x86-64-v3
CPUTYPE?= haswell
TARGET= amd64
TARGET_ARCH= amd64
TARGET_CPUTYPE= ${CPUTYPE}

and for Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows10 i7 platform, I use
ARCH= amd64
ARCHLEVEL= x86-64-v2
CPUTYPE?= nehalem
TARGET= amd64
TARGET_ARCH= amd64
TARGET_CPUTYPE= ${CPUTYPE}

I'm explicit with ARCH because I also cross build.

Hope that this provides a clue. :)

PS I haven't had time to see if the virtualBox can run the haswell or 
better.