[plug] How to determine CPU Types for kernel rebuilds

[Paul Dean]

Hya Phil,

Ok the 300A is a Pentium II arch and the 850 is a bit harder to work
out.
Do you have the original spec from when you bought the machine/cpu?
that would be my best bet, or rip the cover off ,if you can (is it your
box?) grab the cpu and jot down the numbers and goto the intel site and
do a cpu id search.
Have a look at this page;
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/celeron/idyp.htm

Hope this helps...


On Tue, 21 May 2002, Steege, Phil E wrote:

> Paul
> 
> I am trying to rebuild a RedHat kernel Version 2.4.9 Release 31.
> 
> How to I determine wether my Celeron is a Pentium-II or Coppermine, or does
> it matter?
> 
> As I said, one cpu is a Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450Mhz) and one is a
> Celeron 850Mhz.
> 
> Phil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Dean [mailto:paul at thecave.cantech.net.au] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: [plug] How to determine CPU Types for kernel rebuilds
> 
> 
> Hya Phil,
> 
> What kernel are you tring to build?
> Under Processor type and features  ---> Processor family you ahve the
> listings.
> 
> You should get the choice of;
> ( ) 386  
> ( ) 486
> ( ) 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX
> ( ) Pentium-Classic
> ( ) Pentium-MMX
> ( ) Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II	<--- Choose this one or
> ( ) Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)	<--- this one.
> ( ) Pentium-4
> ( ) K6/K6-II/K6-III
> ( ) Athlon/Duron/K7
> ( ) Elan
> ( ) Crusoe
> etc...
> 
> If you are not sure then use the "Help" option to define your choice.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> 
> > When I tried to build a new kernel, the menuconfig screen asked me for 
> > my CPU type 586, 686 etc... I have a celeron 300A in one machine and a 
> > Celeron 800 in the other.  Are these 586's or 686's.
> > I used to think 586 was the designator for a Pentium and 686 for Pentium
> > Pro, but I am not sure.
> > I did a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and it just says "Celeron".
> > I looked in "dmesg|more" and did not see anything there either, but then I
> > may have missed it.
> > 
> > 
> > Phil
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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