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authorOliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>2007-10-17 18:04:36 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de>2007-10-17 20:15:59 +0200
commit75e3808b67f88cdd8c531dda3e00deb3623a3dac (patch)
tree5eb3ee2b3f7b18ed4e77af4c7b52cc10ddcd528e /arch/x86_64
parentfb893e99080f1a01397fcf8afc480163826b23d4 (diff)
x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu
add cpu core name for arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu:Pentium 4 sections help add Pentium D for arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu add Pentium D for arch/x86_64/Kconfig AK: Clarified some of the descriptions [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/Kconfig11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index d681be88ae5..85f958c2f55 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -175,14 +175,12 @@ config MK8
config MPSC
bool "Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon"
help
- Optimize for Intel Pentium 4 and older Nocona/Dempsey Xeon CPUs
- with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology(EM64T). For details see
- <http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/>.
+ Optimize for Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and older Nocona/Dempsey
+ Xeon CPUs with Intel 64bit which is compatible with x86-64.
Note that the latest Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx) are not based on the
Netburst core and shouldn't use this option. You can distinguish them
using the cpu family field
- in /proc/cpuinfo. Family 15 is an older Xeon, Family 6 a newer one
- (this rule only applies to systems that support EM64T)
+ in /proc/cpuinfo. Family 15 is an older Xeon, Family 6 a newer one.
config MCORE2
bool "Intel Core2 / newer Xeon"
@@ -190,8 +188,7 @@ config MCORE2
Optimize for Intel Core2 and newer Xeons (51xx)
You can distinguish the newer Xeons from the older ones using
the cpu family field in /proc/cpuinfo. 15 is an older Xeon
- (use CONFIG_MPSC then), 6 is a newer one. This rule only
- applies to CPUs that support EM64T.
+ (use CONFIG_MPSC then), 6 is a newer one.
config GENERIC_CPU
bool "Generic-x86-64"