Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761307AbXIVJqx (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:46:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751181AbXIVJqq (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:46:46 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46288 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbXIVJqp (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:46:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:46:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , oliver.pntr@gmail.com, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu In-Reply-To: <20070922065724.GA26550@uranus.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <200709221231.836138000@suse.de> <20070921223202.2504813DCD@wotan.suse.de> <20070921224539.GD8127@redhat.com> <20070922065724.GA26550@uranus.ravnborg.org> 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: 983 Lines: 27 On Sep 22 2007 08:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> This seems like yet another list that will need to be perpetually >> kept up to date, and given 99% of users don't know the codename >> of their core, just the marketing name, I question its value. > >As a bare minimum requirement the list presented here shall use same >names as used in /proc/cpuinfo > >On this box I read: > >vendor_id : GenuineIntel >model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) > >This info must be present in Kconfig text (help text) too. >I always have trouble selecting the right CPU before so I welcome this patch >that give me more info - and maybe a bit too much. model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ here. Seems like Intel encodes their codenames into cpuid :( - 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/