[plug] Intel Processor naming conventions

[William Kenworthy]

boot the gentoo livecd and cat /proc/cpuinfo then google for the
family/model/stepping

All celerons are i686, but maybe a p2 or p3 based core depending on age.

in make.conf set:
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
and
CFLAGS="-march=pentium[2 OR 3] -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

avoid -O3, ESPECIALLY on a celeron - if you have very small memory size
(<=64M), try -Os (smaller binary footprint, at the expense of raw
performance, its a tradeoff - a word you seem to use a lot when speaking
of celeries!)

Look into "ufed" to set the USE flags variable - much easier than by
hand.  Also"mirrorselect" to set up where you download packages from -
mine is set to a local tarball store and planetmirror.

For beginners, use a generic 2004.x GRP package and when familiar with
it, recompile either the main packages (GLIBC, gcc, binutils, ...) or
the whole OS.  This can be done whilst its in use so you dont lose any
uptime.  The GRP package sets seem to use good defaults that only need
changing if you want to fiddle/tune/destroy the system!

My celeron 800 laptop was not very good at doing any serious work - too
little ram and too little grunt.

Have fun!

BillK


On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 23:36, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> Have been looking at Gentoo and thought I might save the 2 days of compiling 
> and download the packages CD for my machine.
> The problem is the processor is a Celeron 800 MHz and I am not sure if this 
> counts as a i686 processor or a Pentium 3 or 4, or maybe I should just use 
> the x86 packages.
> Can someone please confirm what this processor is called by Gentoo.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Love
> Mike.
> 
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