Re: new p4-clockmod capable CPUs

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:46:12AM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
 
 > >Ah. Thanks. Now only the new Celerons and Xeons confuse me -- they're
 > >family 6, model 14, stepping 8. Is Ap B1 still valid, as they're called
 > >Xeons (and Celerons)?
 > >
 > >I am confused by all these marketing names being re-used and 
 > >re-used and
 > >re-used and re-used.... sorry ;)
 > >
 > 
 > Hmm... That above doc gives MSR details but doesn't seem to say how to
 > identify a Core/Core 2 processor. I had to look for another ref here.
 > http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/SPECUPDT/30922205.pdf
 > Which says as long as family is 0xf and model 0xe, you can assume it to
 > be Core microarch. And model 0xf will be core 2 in a similar way.
 > Irrespective of final marketing name that they may acquire.
 
It's usually handy to look at the x86info source[1], as most of the
time, I've done the head-scratching to figure out stuff like this
already :)

	Dave

[1] http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info/

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