Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757605AbYJMLgB (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:36:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760505AbYJMLfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:35:31 -0400 Received: from japan.chezphil.org ([77.240.5.4]:5957 "EHLO japan.chezphil.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760293AbYJMLfa (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:35:30 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2221 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:35:30 EDT To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:58:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention Intel Atom in Kconfig.cpu Message-ID: <1223895506638@dmwebmail.dmwebmail.chezphil.org> X-Mailer: Decimail Webmail 3alpha16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" From: "Phil Endecott" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1549 Lines: 43 Am I right in thinking that CONFIG_MCORE2 is the correct choice for an Intel Atom? (It seems to work for me, so far.) If this is true, since there are quite a lot of these chips in circulation now and the choice is not obvious, I think it would be helpful to add something along the following lines to arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott --- diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index b225219..7df0801 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -263,11 +263,12 @@ config MPSC in /proc/cpuinfo. Family 15 is an older Xeon, Family 6 a newer one. config MCORE2 - bool "Core 2/newer Xeon" + bool "Core 2/newer Xeon/Atom" help - Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) - CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU family - in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6 and older ones 15 (not a typo) + Select this for Intel Core 2, newer Core 2 Xeon (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) + and Intel Atom CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by + the CPU family in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6 and older ones 15 + (not a typo). config GENERIC_CPU bool "Generic-x86-64" -- 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/