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Re: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500

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On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:21:38 +0000, ruben safir wrote:

> 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

Well, there's really no need to archive the answer, as it was quite 
obvious all along.  What part of "Core 2/whatever" don't you understand, 
if you have a Core 2 processor?

Sheesh.


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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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