Which CPUTYPE?

richard cinema richard.cinema at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 11:34:02 PDT 2005


try the "cpucaps",which is good for check your cpu abilities.

On 9/13/05, Kiffin Gish <kiffin at gish.demon.nl> wrote:
> 
> I'm a bit confused which CPUTYPE I should be using in the make.conf file.
> 
> For my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, dmesg shows the following:
> 
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz (1993.54 686-class CPU)
> 
> and for my web server, dmesg shows the same thing although is has a
> 
> AMD Sempron 1800BOX3100+
> 
> I see in the documentation that CPUTYPE=i686 is for older Pentium types, 
> so
> does that mean I should use CPUTYPE=i686 (even though dmesg shgows
> '686-class CPU')
> 
> And my kernel file then? cpu I686_CPU or I586_CPU.
> 
> What should I use for my laptop? For my web server?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> --
> Kiffin Rex Gish
> Gouda, The Netherlands
> 
> 
> 
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