From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Brown <jbrown@emergence.uk.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What Processor family for Centrino Pentium M?
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:50:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16252.15182.516051.237181@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7C373D.7070409@stesmi.com>
Stefan Smietanowski writes:
> Hi Mikael.
>
> > > Is the Pentium M a P3 or a P4? What should I set in my kernel config?
> >
> > Pentium III.
>
> Isn't it based on the P4 ? It uses the same quad pumped bus at the P4
> and has SSE2 for instance. Both of those are lacking on the P3.
While it has some P4-like extensions, the P-M core is P6 not NetBurst.
This is trivially deducible from various Intel documents, including
the P-M spec update, the IA32 Volume3 manual, and the Code Optim manual.
Also, CPUID reports family 6 not 15.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-02 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 18:23 Jonathan Brown
2003-10-01 19:22 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-02 14:33 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-10-02 14:50 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
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