What processor type?

What processor type?

[Stephen Clark]

Hello List,

Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel 
config for
an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip.

Thanks,
Steve

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Re: What processor type?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel 
> config for
> an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip.

the x86-64 "generic" option works best:

config GENERIC_CPU
        bool "Generic-x86-64"
        help
          Generic x86-64 CPU.


that one.



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Re: What processor type?

[Mark Lord]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel 
>> config for
>> an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip.
> 
> the x86-64 "generic" option works best:

For 32-bit kernels, I suppose it should be one of Pentium-M or Pentium-4.

Re: What processor type?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:46 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel 
> >> config for
> >> an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip.
> > 
> > the x86-64 "generic" option works best:
> 
> For 32-bit kernels, I suppose it should be one of Pentium-M or Pentium-4.

Pentium-M. Pentium-4 is an entirely different microarchitecture that
needs different optimizations than the Core 2 Duo; the pentium M
optimizations will work well on a Core 2 Duo... (although to be fair,
the Core 2 Duo runs just about all code you throw at it really really
fast anyway)

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