From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754714AbWKMOw7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754815AbWKMOw7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:59 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47593 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754714AbWKMOw5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:57 -0500 Subject: Re: What processor type? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Mark Lord Cc: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <4558854A.2080902@rtr.ca> References: <4557534E.9040205@seclark.us> <1163363865.15249.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4558854A.2080902@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:52:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1163429574.15249.149.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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