From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263352AbTJBOvG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:51:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263356AbTJBOvG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:51:06 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:9446 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263352AbTJBOvD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:51:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16252.15182.516051.237181@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:50:54 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: Jonathan Brown , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: What Processor family for Centrino Pentium M? In-Reply-To: <3F7C373D.7070409@stesmi.com> References: <1065032627.9643.57.camel@localhost> <16251.10643.891947.130552@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <3F7C373D.7070409@stesmi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.