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Michael Dwyer wrote:
> 
> Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
> : was commented out, like _M3/486, but M586=y was not.  I have a Pentium
> : II, shouldn't it be set to M686?  the make *config tools didn't give me
> 
> Damn good question.  I think it goes like this:
> 
> 386
> 486
> 586 (Pentium, K5)
> 686 (PentiumPro)
> ??? (Pentium II)
> 
> That is, I don't think Linux supports the PII yet...  Its a function
> of the compiler, though, I think...  I'm kind of curious what the people
> say about what the correct selection is for a PII... My understanding
> of those setting are that they aren't /that/ important.  You can compile
> Pentium code for a 486, and it will be smaller, though slower.  If you
> need that tradeoff, though...
> 
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> Michael J. Dwyer                      I doubt, therefore I might be.
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I think the PII is basically a PPro core with MMX added.
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