From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Mark de Vries <mark@asphyx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which CPU for VIA C7/Esther?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:16:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070212201635.GD10697@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070212191441.GB20686@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:37:38PM +0100, Mark de Vries wrote:
> > I've been googeling for about an hour now and can't find an answer to:
> > What type of CPU should I select when compiling a recent 2.6 kernel if I
> > have a VIA Esther CPU?
>
> > stepping : 9
>
> config MVIAC3_2
> bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)"
> help
> Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage
> of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
> Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s.
>
> Is the one you want, I believe.
The C7 doesn't seem to care much which you optimise it for.
Any of the 686 options should work just fine, but MVIAC3_2 is no
worse than any of the others.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-12 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-12 17:37 Which CPU for VIA C7/Esther? Mark de Vries
2007-02-12 19:14 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-02-12 20:16 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-02-12 23:46 ` Simon Arlott
2007-02-12 23:59 ` Dave Jones
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