Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:05:16 +0200
From: Tuukka Toivonen <tutoivon AT mail DOT student DOT oulu DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: [offtopic] Athlon manuals?
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Ronald de Man wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:06:31PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> > doesn't have Athlon datasheets, doesn't talk anything about it, and I
> Is 22007.pdf on that page not something you could use?

I can use, but it definitely isn't enough. It doesn't give clock count
even for single instruction, not to even speak about how the Athlon is
capable of issuing multiple instructions, and many of the optimization
"tricks" in the manual are obvious.

If there isn't Athlon manual, what CPU would be closest? K6? Some Intel?

> There is an athlon specific patch that you can find at
> http://www.athlonlinux.org/. I have not tried it myself.

Thanks! I had forgotten this even if I saw it once. Right now the site
doesn't work but hopefully later...