Re: What processor type?

Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13T14:52:59Z

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)

--
if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com
Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org