linux-kernel - Re: What processor type?

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Message-Id: <1163429574.15249.149.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:52:54 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Stephen.Clark@...lark.us,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What processor type?

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:46 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel 
> >> config for
> >> an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip.
> > 
> > the x86-64 "generic" option works best:
> 
> For 32-bit kernels, I suppose it should be one of Pentium-M or Pentium-4.

Pentium-M. Pentium-4 is an entirely different microarchitecture that
needs different optimizations than the Core 2 Duo; the pentium M
optimizations will work well on a Core 2 Duo... (although to be fair,
the Core 2 Duo runs just about all code you throw at it really really
fast anyway)

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