From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39C3138925 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 01:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E13E621C01D; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 01:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67907E064A for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 01:48:14 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoGABK/CFG4rxAk/2dsb2JhbABEtyKHbBdzgl8cXxMhBSUkE4gRoAuNSJNajSCDCWEDiGGFHYgOhX6IcIFegxU X-IPAS-Result: AsoGABK/CFG4rxAk/2dsb2JhbABEtyKHbBdzgl8cXxMhBSUkE4gRoAuNSJNajSCDCWEDiGGFHYgOhX6IcIFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="837234" Received: from 184-175-16-36.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.16.36]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 08 Feb 2013 20:48:12 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:48:08 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:48:08 -0500 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select? Message-ID: <20130209014808.GB11071@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: c90107eb-9924-408f-b098-e7ea9bd4c3b9 X-Archives-Hash: 7b05fa3fc8c1ce0be3d5d833b005d9a3 I'm installing Gentoo on a brand new toy I just got myself. Here are the choices from "make menuconfig". Is "Core 2/newer Xeon" correct? ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon (X) Core 2/newer Xeon ( ) Intel Atom ( ) Generic-x86-64 Here's the listing for one of the cores from /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 2667.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5320.06 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications