What arch to specify for a XEON system?

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 12:00:35 PDT 2004


On 03/13/04 11:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I wound up with a dual-XEON on my desktop, and I'm acutally a bit
> baffled by the machine.  I'd like to do compilations that take
> advantage of the architecture, but I'm unsure what to tell
> gcc, whether this is a i868 for RPM purposes, what to tell gentoo
> (I'm thinking of migrating there from RH 7.3 and RH 9.0).
> 
> The OS I'm running now is generic i386, which seems underkill for
> a dual XEON (4 hyperthread) setup.

Its a P4 equivalent.


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