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SubjectRe: Which CPU for VIA C7/Esther?
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:37:38PM +0100, Mark de Vries wrote:
> > I've been googeling for about an hour now and can't find an answer to:
> > What type of CPU should I select when compiling a recent 2.6 kernel if I
> > have a VIA Esther CPU?
>
> > stepping : 9
>
> config MVIAC3_2
> bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)"
> help
> Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage
> of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686.
> Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s.
>
> Is the one you want, I believe.

The C7 doesn't seem to care much which you optimise it for.
Any of the 686 options should work just fine, but MVIAC3_2 is no
worse than any of the others.

Dave

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