Re: Adding k9 and k10 to bsd.cpu.mk

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.

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-- David (obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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"
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