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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select?
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 11:48:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130209174807.GR30998@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130209014808.GB11071@waltdnes.org>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:48:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   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
> 
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 37
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       M 620  @ 2.67GHz

You can also use this patch which adds support for modern (>=gcc-4.6) CPU
options to the kernel:
http://www.linuxforge.net/linux/kernel/kernel-30rc5-gcc46-0.patch -- you can
get Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7 AVX choices in your kernel.

Bruce
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-09 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-09  1:48 [gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select? Walter Dnes
2013-02-09  4:34 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-02-09 17:48 ` Bruce Hill [this message]

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