Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262665AbTHWNGa (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:06:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263468AbTHWNG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:06:29 -0400 Received: from modemcable009.53-202-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.202.53.9]:16256 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262665AbTHWNG1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:06:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:03:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Mikael Pettersson cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lkml@kcore.org Subject: Re: Pentium-M? In-Reply-To: <200308231236.h7NCaMl0018383@harpo.it.uu.se> Message-ID: References: <200308231236.h7NCaMl0018383@harpo.it.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 20 On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:50:02 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: > >Just a short question. For the Pentium-M as used in the centrino platform, > >what do I select in the 2.6.0-test4 kernel configuration as the CPU? > > > >I figure it's not a PIV, but is it a P3? Or is it something special? > > The P-M core is PIII, to which SSE2, some P4-like model-specific > registers, and (it seems) a P4 bus were added. > > For now, treat it simply as a PIII. That's interesting, intel compiler recommends P4 type optimisations, also worth noting that the P-M has hardware prefetch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/