Re: Xeon processor support

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Artemio wrote:
> 
> > Outside that what issues are you seeing?
> No issues. 
> I just know that Intel Xeon and Intel Pentium 4 Xeon are different things, 
> that's why I was asking - there is only a "Pentium 4" option in kernel 
> config.

Actually they aren't significantly different.

this is a prestonia core xeon:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2799.786
cache size      : 512 KB
Physical processor ID   : 0
Number of siblings      : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
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
bogomips        : 5556.67

kernel currently use was compiled for pentium II/III

Linux hammer 2.4.18-24.8.0smp #1 SMP Fri Jan 31 06:03:47 EST 2003 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 
> 
> Thanks for reply.
> 
> 
> Artemio.
> 

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