Re: [PATCH] add explicit Pentium II support

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 15:13:52 EST


On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 14:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The thing I reacted to was that the P4 entry should include the
> P4-based celerons. I have no idea what those are called, though.
>
> Anyway, applied.

I was thinking the same thing, but the lame name of the chips held me
back - the new Celerons are also called "Celerons".

Regardless, I updated the comments and I call the new Celerons "P4-based
Celerons" which should be descriptive enough.

Patch is against current BK.

        Robert Love

 arch/i386/Kconfig | 12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -urN linux-2.5.56/arch/i386/Kconfig linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
--- linux-2.5.56/arch/i386/Kconfig 2003-01-12 15:05:16.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig 2003-01-12 15:10:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
           - "Pentium-Pro" for the Intel Pentium Pro.
           - "Pentium-II" for the Intel Pentium II or pre-Coppermine Celeron.
           - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III or Coppermine Celeron.
- - "Pentium-4" for the Intel Pentium 4.
+ - "Pentium-4" for the Intel Pentium 4 or P4-based Celeron.
           - "K6" for the AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III (aka K6-3D).
           - "Athlon" for the AMD K7 family (Athlon/Duron/Thunderbird).
           - "Crusoe" for the Transmeta Crusoe series.
@@ -183,11 +183,13 @@
           extensions.
 
 config MPENTIUM4
- bool "Pentium-4"
+ bool "Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)"
         help
- Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips. Presently these are
- treated almost like Pentium IIIs, but with a different cache
- shift.
+ Select this for Intel Pentium 4 chips. This includes both
+ the Pentium 4 proper and P4-based Celeron chips. This option
+ enables compile flags optimized for the core, uses the
+ correct cache shift, and applies any applicable Pentium III
+ optimizations.
 
 config MK6
         bool "K6/K6-II/K6-III"

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