On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:37:38PM +0100, Mark de Vries wrote: > > I've been googeling for about an hour now and can't find an answer to: > > What type of CPU should I select when compiling a recent 2.6 kernel if I > > have a VIA Esther CPU? > > > stepping : 9 > > config MVIAC3_2 > bool "VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)" > help > Select this for a VIA C3 "Nehemiah". Selecting this enables usage > of SSE and tells gcc to treat the CPU as a 686. > Note, this kernel will not boot on older (pre model 9) C3s. > > Is the one you want, I believe.
The C7 doesn't seem to care much which you optimise it for. Any of the 686 options should work just fine, but MVIAC3_2 is no worse than any of the others. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/