On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo on a brand new toy I just got myself. Here are > the choices from "make menuconfig". Is "Core 2/newer Xeon" correct? > > ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 > ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon > (X) Core 2/newer Xeon > ( ) Intel Atom > ( ) Generic-x86-64 > > Here's the listing for one of the cores from /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 37 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz > stepping : 5 > microcode : 0x2 > cpu MHz : 2667.000 > cache size : 4096 KB > physical id : 0 > siblings : 4 > core id : 0 > cpu cores : 2 > apicid : 0 > initial apicid : 0 > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 11 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe > syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl > xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx > smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm > ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid > bogomips : 5320.06 > clflush size : 64 > cache_alignment : 64 > address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: >
Y U NO read help of that option? It's clearly specified there that newer Xeons have family 6 and older ones have 15. So, your choice is right. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
