Re: Pentium-M?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:50:02 +0200, Jan De Luyck <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Just a short question. For the Pentium-M as used in the centrino platform, 
> >what do I select in the 2.6.0-test4 kernel configuration as the CPU?
> >
> >I figure it's not a PIV, but is it a P3? Or is it something special?
> 
> The P-M core is PIII, to which SSE2, some P4-like model-specific
> registers, and (it seems) a P4 bus were added.
> 
> For now, treat it simply as a PIII.

That's interesting, intel compiler recommends P4 type optimisations, 
also worth noting that the P-M has hardware prefetch.
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