http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/C02731435/C02731435.pdf Hewlett-Packard Technology brief, 2nd edition. APR/2011. This paper summarizes the technologies in the latest generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. These technologies include: Microarchitecture, I/O, Power management, Virtualization, Data security.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/C02731435/C02731435.pdf Hewlett-Packard Technology brief, 2nd edition. APR/2011. This paper summarizes the technologies in the latest generation of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. These technologies include: Microarchitecture, I/O, Power management, Virtualization, Data security.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7715 CPU Identifications in linux kernels (2.6.18 + rhel patches) , NOTE that this is not applicable when you are running linux kernel on top of virtual hardware (i.e. Dom0 and DomU kernels won’t show proper CPU info because they use “virtual CPU” as set by XEN )
http://www.fcenter.ru/online.shtml?articles/hardware/processors/28696 low power AMD cpu, a candidate for a new home server project
http://www.timesys.com/products/processors/intel/intel-ixp425 page lists some details about intel ixp4xx combo-cpu’s and there are some useful notes as to what kernel config options should be enabled. Timesys uses 2.6.16.10