From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965297AbXBLUQp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:16:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965302AbXBLUQp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:16:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33193 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965297AbXBLUQo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:16:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:16:35 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Kyle McMartin Cc: Mark de Vries , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Which CPU for VIA C7/Esther? Message-ID: <20070212201635.GD10697@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Kyle McMartin , Mark de Vries , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1171301858.3557.6.camel@localhost> <20070212191441.GB20686@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070212191441.GB20686@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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