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Old 22nd October 2008
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Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
For FreeBSD 7.0, there's nothing listed specifically for the VIA C7.
This is because there aren't signifigant enough differences between what VIA sells as C3 and what they sell as C7, architecturally, therefore GCC doesn't have a seperate optimization profile for those sold as C7s. It's marketing terminology more than a genuine difference in technology. That said, there are some very signifigant differences between some early (Cyrix design based) C3 chips, and the latter chips which forked very far from the early Cyrix designs and implemented some really cool stuff like the Padlock RNG and crypto instruction sets.
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