Re: Which CPU for VIA C7/Esther?

[Dave Jones]

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

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