I have a pentium-d processor in my computer at work and I want to
compile a custom kernel for it. the only problem is that I want to get
the best performence out of it but I don't know which processor to
configure to kernel for. there isn't a pentium-d option and I don't
know which processor it's most closely related to without becoming
incompatable. I havn't been able to find any docs on this anywere. if
somebody knows the optimal setting for my processor I would be quite
gratefull to know. thanks!

On 2006-01-27, shroomers_inc@mchsi.com <shroomers_inc@mchsi.com> wrote:
> I have a pentium-d processor in my computer at work and I want to
> compile a custom kernel for it. the only problem is that I want to get
> the best performence out of it but I don't know which processor to
> configure to kernel for. there isn't a pentium-d option and I don't
> know which processor it's most closely related to without becoming
> incompatable. I havn't been able to find any docs on this anywere. if
> somebody knows the optimal setting for my processor I would be quite
> gratefull to know. thanks!
>

Yeah a Pentium D processor is a chip with 2 Pentium 4's on it. So you
would want to use Pentium 4 and enable SMP so that the kernel can use
both the processors. If you're running and x86_64 distro you'll want to
use em64t as the processor type.