I'm installing Gentoo on a brand new toy I just got myself. Here are the choices from "make menuconfig". Is "Core 2/newer Xeon" correct?
( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon (X) Core 2/newer Xeon ( ) Intel Atom ( ) Generic-x86-64 Here's the listing for one of the cores from /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 2667.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 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 pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5320.06 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
