Re: CPU options during config
Sam Bingner (death@hawaii.rr.com)
Thu, 07 Jan 1999 01:57:26 -1000
Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> but the help text says that a K6 is a Pentium, not a Pentium Pro.
>
> AFAIK, the AMD K6 is a Socket 7 Pentium replacement, not a Pentium Pro
> or Pentium-II, so the help text is correct, and the menu should
> be fixed.
>
> If I remember correctly the 6x86 are suppose to be ppro opcode compatable
> (at least from 200 Mhz and up). I suspect the K6 is as well. Remember that
> the main reason intel abandoned the socket 7 architecture is that they are
> trying to impose their own proprietary architecture, a la MCA.
> Unfortunately they are succeeding somewhat. However this doesn't make the
> latest socket 7 chips only pentium compatable.
>
so, by your own statement, actually the help file is incorrect but the
config is correct =] .... I highly doubt linux would have been doing
optimizations for a CPU that wouldn't support them correctly without
somone pointing this out to him before ;-)
also PPRO and PII use different architectures (PPRO-Socket 8 PII-Slot 1)
so if you were going to break it down by architecture rather than what
the chip supports (which doesn't seem like a good idea to me because
what a chip supports should be more useful in coding than what it plugs
into) you would also have to break up PII and PPRO =]
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