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Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500

From ruben safir <dont@email.me>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500
Date 2015-03-21 08:21 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 07:44:04 +0100, Aragorn wrote:

> On Saturday 21 March 2015 05:37, ruben safir conveyed the following to 
> comp.os.linux.hardware...
> 
>> I'm compiling my own kernel and I'm confused at what I am reading in
>> the
>> configuration file  This machine is a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500
>> and my choices in the menuconfig is:
>> 
>>  │
>>        │ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
>>        │
>>        │ │         ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8                    │
>>        │
>>        │ │         ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon          │
>>        │
>>        │ │         ( ) Core 2/newer Xeon                             │
>>        │
>>        │ │         ( ) Intel Atom                                    │
>>        │
>>        │ │         (X) Generic-x86-64                                │
>>        │
>>        │ │                                                           │
>>        │ │
>>        └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>> 
>> 
>> So, I think I need the core 2/new Xeon but the help message
>>  CONFIG_MCORE2:
>>   Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and
>>  53xx) CPUs. You can distinguish newer from older Xeons by the CPU
>>  family in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6 and older ones 15
>>  (not a typo) Symbol: MCORE2 [=y]
>>  Type  : boolean
>>   Prompt: Core 2/newer Xeon
>> Location:
>>    -> Processor type and features
>>   -> Processor family (<choice> [=y])
>>    Defined at arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu:254
>>   Depends on: <choice>
> 
> Yes, you need to select "Core2/newer Xeon".  The distinction "newer 
> Xeons" is because Intel has also made Xeon versions with 64-bit support 
> based upon the Netburst (Pentium 4) architecture.

Thank YOU.  I hope this is archived for the future.

Ruben



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Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-21 00:37 -0400
  Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-21 07:44 +0100
    Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 08:21 +0000
      Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2015-03-23 02:21 +0000
        Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-23 01:29 -0400
          Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2015-03-23 13:54 +0000

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