Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron?

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:09:00AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> Thus the older Celerons should be compiled with CONFIG_M686 (Pentium
> Pro),
> but the Celeron Coppermine can be compiled with CONFIG_M686FXSR (Pentium
> III), right?

Yes.

> In this case we should update the files Configure.help and the config.in
> files.

I supplied a patch which did that, but Linus dropped all patches (on
purpose). Here it is again:

Index: Documentation/Configure.help
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/erik/cvsroot/elinux/Documentation/Configure.help,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.57
diff -u -r1.1.1.57 Configure.help
--- Documentation/Configure.help	2000/12/13 15:10:53	1.1.1.57
+++ Documentation/Configure.help	2000/12/23 22:58:12
@@ -2868,7 +2868,7 @@
    - "Pentium-Classic" for the Intel Pentium.
    - "Pentium-MMX" for the Intel Pentium MMX.
    - "Pentium-Pro" for the Intel Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II.
-   - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III.
+   - "Pentium-III" for the Intel Pentium III/Celeron Coppermine.
    - "Pentium-4" for the Intel Pentium 4
    - "K6" for the AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III (aka K6-3D).
    - "Athlon" for the AMD Athlon (K7).
Index: arch/i386/config.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/erik/cvsroot/elinux/arch/i386/config.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.13
diff -u -r1.1.1.13 config.in
--- arch/i386/config.in	2000/12/13 15:09:15	1.1.1.13
+++ arch/i386/config.in	2000/12/23 23:12:55
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 	 Pentium-Classic		CONFIG_M586TSC \
 	 Pentium-MMX			CONFIG_M586MMX \
 	 Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II	CONFIG_M686 \
-	 Pentium-III			CONFIG_M686FXSR \
+	 Pentium-III/Celeron Coppermine	CONFIG_M686FXSR \
 	 Pentium-4			CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 \
 	 K6/K6-II/K6-III		CONFIG_MK6 \
 	 Athlon/K7			CONFIG_MK7 \

Erik

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