CONFIG_MK8: Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MK8 has multiple definitions:

Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 found in arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu

The configuration item CONFIG_MK8:

• prompt: Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.24–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.14

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Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC.

Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 found in arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu

The configuration item CONFIG_MK8:

• prompt: Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.15–2.6.23

Help text

Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC.

AMD-Opteron/Athlon64 found in arch/x86_64/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_MK8:

• prompt: AMD-Opteron/Athlon64
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/x86_64/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.61–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.23

Help text

Optimize for AMD Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 CPUs.

Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 found in arch/i386/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_MK8:

• prompt: Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/i386/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.54–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.14

Help text

Select this for an AMD Opteron or Athlon64 Hammer-family processor. Enables use of some extended instructions, and passes appropriate optimization flags to GCC.

AMD-Hammer found in arch/x86_64/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_MK8:

• prompt: AMD-Hammer
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/x86_64/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.45–2.5.60

Help text

Support for AMD Clawhammer/Sledgehammer CPUs. Only choice for x86-64 currently so you should choose this if you want a x86-64 kernel. In fact you will have no other choice than to choose this.

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