[MPlayer-users] k6 model 13

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:04:06PM +0200, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote:
> 
> I found in the "configure" file of MPlayer the
> following note, about the k6 model 13:
> 
> # TODO: how to determine if model 13 is a k6-2 or a k6-3? Couldn't find
> anything on amd.com
> 
> The k6 model 13 are the k6-2+ and k6-3+.
> There is no difference between the two CPU,
> except that the 2+ has 128KB L2 cache instead
> of 256KB of the 3+.
> 
> >From the technical point of view they are both
> equivalent to k6-3, and they must be handled
> like that. Also for gcc.

What's the difference between the K6-2 and the K6-2+ then?

> So the line (in "configure"):
> 
> if test "$pmodel" -eq 9; then
>                 proc=k6-3
> ...
> 
> should include also model 13, without any further
> checking if the CPU is a 2+ or a 3+.
> That is something like:
> 
> if test "$pmodel" -eq 9 -o "$pmodel" -eq 13; then
>                proc=k6-3
> ...

I have a K6-III+ and this does at least not break anything, but I don't
really see where this makes a difference..  Please explain.

BTW, this probably belongs on mplayer-dev-eng..

Diego