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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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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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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