Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron?

[Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@student.ethz.ch>]

"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> 
> On 2001.01.02 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > When working in cpu autoconfiguration I found some problems:
> >
> > I have to identify this processor:
> >   Vendor: Intel
> >   Family: 6
> >   Model:  8
> > Is it a "Pentium III (Coppermine)" (setup.c:1709)
> > or a "Celeron (Coppermine)" (setup.c:1650) ?
> >
> 
> AFAIK, both. Coppermine is the code name of the low level arch of
> the chip.
> 
> Really, the kernel should be querying the builder: Have you a
> Deschutes, a Mendocino or a Coppermine ? How much cache do you have ?
> But that is rarely known (Uh? I bought a Pentium III). You have to
> guess from the answer to:
> Have you a PII, an old Celeron (Mendocino) or a new Cel-PIII (Copper).
> 

Thus the older Celerons should be compiled with CONFIG_M686 (Pentium
Pro),
but the Celeron Coppermine can be compiled with CONFIG_M686FXSR (Pentium
III), right?
In this case we should update the files Configure.help and the config.in
files.

	giacomo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/