Re: ppro config.in patch...

From: Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 17:25:19 EST


On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:14:33PM +0200, Artur Skawina wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > This patch looks wrong or incomplete. Now I have to choose "PPro" in
> > order to get the -march=i686 optimizations to feed my hungry Dual PII
> > SMP box?
>
> > - 586/K5/5x86/6x86 CONFIG_M586 \
> > + 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX CONFIG_M586 \
> > Pentium/TSC CONFIG_M586TSC \
> > - PPro/6x86MX CONFIG_M686 \
> > + PPro CONFIG_M686 \
>
> i' not sure what you mean -- 6x86MX would be an old cyrix, and it
> seems to have more in common with p5 than p6. iow nothing changed
> for PII.

That's simple to fix, just replace

  PPro

with

  PPro/P-II/P-III

and everything should work as expected: Most people don't realize
that PPro, P-II and P-III are one CPU family.

Yours,
  Dominik Kubla

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