On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Bjrn Knig wrote: > Björn König wrote: > >> Intel's first Pentium 4 with SSE3 is called "prescott". We could use > >> "venice" analogously to represent SSE3-capable Athlon64 CPUs. > > David O'Brien wrote: > > No! NO! AMD core names does not mean the same as Intel ones. > > Look folks, there is a clear way for this - the CPUID family. > > Pentium 4 processors before Prescott belong to family 15. Prescott and > recent Pentium 4 processors still use 15 as family ID. If I understand you > correctly then there should be no distinction between these processors > because they have the same family ID, but there is one in bsd.cpu.mk > because of SSE3. Not quite. CPUID Family is vendor-specific. The Family value for Intel cannot be compared with the meaning of Family for AMD (or VIA). AMD bumps the CPUID Family value for each new major architecture generation. I have no idea what's the meaning of "Family" by Intel. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon? Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting"Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 17:43:15 UTC
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