* Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? [not found] ` <fa.hcv7gqv.s3k9qk@ifi.uio.no> @ 2001-01-08 10:09 ` Giacomo Catenazzi 2001-01-08 14:12 ` J . A . Magallon 2001-01-08 21:25 ` Erik Mouw 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Giacomo Catenazzi @ 2001-01-08 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: J . A . Magallon; +Cc: Giacomo A . Catenazzi, linux-kernel "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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? 2001-01-08 10:09 ` Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? Giacomo Catenazzi @ 2001-01-08 14:12 ` J . A . Magallon 2001-01-08 21:25 ` Erik Mouw 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: J . A . Magallon @ 2001-01-08 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Giacomo Catenazzi; +Cc: linux-kernel On 2001.01.08 Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > 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. > I am not an expert on arch codenames, models and so on. Perhaps you should launch a more specific question onto the list and see what happens... -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:jamagallon@able.es $> more beer Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac3 #2 SMP Sun Jan 7 02:13:37 CET 2001 i686 - 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? 2001-01-08 10:09 ` Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? Giacomo Catenazzi 2001-01-08 14:12 ` J . A . Magallon @ 2001-01-08 21:25 ` Erik Mouw 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Erik Mouw @ 2001-01-08 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Giacomo Catenazzi Cc: J . A . Magallon, Giacomo A . Catenazzi, linux-kernel, torvalds, Alan Cox On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:09:00AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > 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? Yes. > In this case we should update the files Configure.help and the config.in > files. I supplied a patch which did that, but Linus dropped all patches (on purpose). Here it is again: Index: Documentation/Configure.help =================================================================== RCS file: /home/erik/cvsroot/elinux/Documentation/Configure.help,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.57 diff -u -r1.1.1.57 Configure.help --- Documentation/Configure.help 2000/12/13 15:10:53 1.1.1.57 +++ Documentation/Configure.help 2000/12/23 22:58:12 @@ -2868,7 +2868,7 @@ - "Pentium-Classic" for the Intel Pentium. - "Pentium-MMX" for the Intel Pentium MMX. - "Pentium-Pro" for the Intel Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II. - - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III. + - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III/Celeron Coppermine. - "Pentium-4" for the Intel Pentium 4 - "K6" for the AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III (aka K6-3D). - "Athlon" for the AMD Athlon (K7). Index: arch/i386/config.in =================================================================== RCS file: /home/erik/cvsroot/elinux/arch/i386/config.in,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.13 diff -u -r1.1.1.13 config.in --- arch/i386/config.in 2000/12/13 15:09:15 1.1.1.13 +++ arch/i386/config.in 2000/12/23 23:12:55 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Pentium-Classic CONFIG_M586TSC \ Pentium-MMX CONFIG_M586MMX \ Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II CONFIG_M686 \ - Pentium-III CONFIG_M686FXSR \ + Pentium-III/Celeron Coppermine CONFIG_M686FXSR \ Pentium-4 CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 \ K6/K6-II/K6-III CONFIG_MK6 \ Athlon/K7 CONFIG_MK7 \ Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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