From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What processor type?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:52:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163429574.15249.149.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4558854A.2080902@rtr.ca>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 17:01 Stephen Clark
2006-11-12 20:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13 14:46 ` Mark Lord
2006-11-13 14:52 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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