From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select?
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 10:04:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHgBc-vU2nDDdbH4ZX0pBmpbMVjSj_Z7fozrUVoxEaJ20TUd5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130209014808.GB11071@waltdnes.org>
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> 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
>
> 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:
>
Y U NO read help of that option? It's clearly specified there that
newer Xeons have family 6 and older ones have 15.
So, your choice is right.
--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
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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 [this message]
2013-02-09 17:48 ` Bruce Hill
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