Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:09:00 +0100 | From | Giacomo Catenazzi <> | Subject | Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? |
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"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > On 2001.01.02 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > Hello! > > > > When working in cpu autoconfiguration I found some problems: > > > > I have to identify this processor: > > Vendor: Intel > > Family: 6 > > Model: 8 > > Is it a "Pentium III (Coppermine)" (setup.c:1709) > > or a "Celeron (Coppermine)" (setup.c:1650) ? > > > > AFAIK, both. Coppermine is the code name of the low level arch of > the chip. > > Really, the kernel should be querying the builder: Have you a > Deschutes, a Mendocino or a Coppermine ? How much cache do you have ? > But that is rarely known (Uh? I bought a Pentium III). You have to > guess from the answer to: > Have you a PII, an old Celeron (Mendocino) or a new Cel-PIII (Copper). >
Thus the older Celerons should be compiled with CONFIG_M686 (Pentium Pro), but the Celeron Coppermine can be compiled with CONFIG_M686FXSR (Pentium III), right? In this case we should update the files Configure.help and the config.in files.
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