PE4600 and Red Hat Questions

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Marc Schmitt wrote:
> Hi Arjan,
> 
> Some time ago I asked on this list what Processor Family should be 
> selected for the PE4600 in a custom kernel build: 
> Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine) or Pentium-4.

the only effect this config option has is the estimated cacheline size the
kernel uses for padding internal datastructures

> Can I select Pentium-4 as Processor Familiy w/o running into troubles, 
> hoping on a tiny performance gain *for free*?

P4 kernels *currently* work on pIII cpu's. There's no guarantee for future
kernels of course