From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 08:22:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13532 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13527 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA07272; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:22:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:22:06 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199901091622.LAA07272@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Garrett Wollman , Bryan Seitz , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch. In-Reply-To: References: <199901091550.KAA07206@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Well, they are the same in that respect, but the Pentium II has cache in > the same package, and most Pentium II's aren't overclockable. The celeron > is. That's OK -- we don't support overclocking anyway. The Celeron does have a cache in the package, BTW. The cache in the Celeron is this tiny little thing that is actually capable of running at clock rates of 250 MHz or higher; the actual CPU is a perfectly ordinary Pentium-II core of the sort that would be labeled as ``450 MHz'' when coupled with a more expensive cache. (According to my friend who does VLSI design.) The Celeron chips are intentionally down-rated by Intel marketing to keep them from cannibalizing the high-end market. (Remember when upgrading to a faster line printer meant that a SE would change a single belt?) I think we should stick to identifying the core. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message