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What Processor family for Centrino Pentium M?

DISCUSSION Jonathan Brown 3 participants 4 messages Oct 1, 2003 – Oct 2, 2003

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Is the Pentium M a P3 or a P4? What should I set in my kernel config?

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Is the Pentium M a P3 or a P4? What should I set in my kernel config?

Pentium III.

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Hi Mikael.

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Is the Pentium M a P3 or a P4? What should I set in my kernel config?

Pentium III.

Isn't it based on the P4 ? It uses the same quad pumped bus at the P4 and has SSE2 for instance. Both of those are lacking on the P3.

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Hi Mikael.

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Is the Pentium M a P3 or a P4? What should I set in my kernel config?

Pentium III.

Isn't it based on the P4 ? It uses the same quad pumped bus at the P4 and has SSE2 for instance. Both of those are lacking on the P3.

While it has some P4-like extensions, the P-M core is P6 not NetBurst. This is trivially deducible from various Intel documents, including the P-M spec update, the IA32 Volume3 manual, and the Code Optim manual. Also, CPUID reports family 6 not 15.