Re: [PATCH] [2.4] [2.5] [i386] Add support for GCC 3.1

Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@woods.net)
Mon, 27 May 2002 05:44:52 -0600 (MDT)


On Sun, 26 May 2002 rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:

> Another processor config could be CONFIG_K62.
> gcc-3.1 -march=k6-2 benchmarks a little better
> than -march=k6. Adding CONFIG_XF86_USE_3DNOW=y
> seems to help a little too.
>
> Based on grepping gcc-3.1 src, it appears:
> k6-3 == k6-2

IIRC (not looking at the datasheets) there were some pretty nice
improvements made to the core in the K6 to K6-2 update (not just and
upclock and downsize, real changes(isn't this when they added MMX
too?)).

However, the K6-3 is simply a K6-2 with the addition of a 256K L2
cache on die at full cpu clock. It was a great improvement
performance wise for many uses (think 256K L2 @ 450Mhz, and then a 2M
L3 on the mainboard) though.

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