Re: Pentium M config option for 2.6

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 16:52:57 EST


On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:50:28PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:33:08AM -0500, Rob Love wrote:
>
> > Yah. I was just answering in the abstract to the "does cache line
> > matter on non-SMP" question.
> >
> > I actually like this patch (perhaps since I have a P-M :) and think it
> > ought to go in, although I agree with others that the P-M is more of a
> > super-P3 than a scaled down P4.
>
> FWIW, I agree with it too on the grounds that its non obvious the optimal
> setting is CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII. This seems cleaner IMO than changing the
> helptext to read...
>
> "Pentium II"
> "Pentium III / Pentium 4M"
> "Pentium 4"
>
> My other mail may have sounded like I objected to the patch per se, I don't.

Pentium M and Pentium 4M are two different beasts, by the way.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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