Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Jan 1999 01:57:26 -1000 | From | Sam Bingner <> | Subject | Re: CPU options during config |
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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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