Re: FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:39:39PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> My vague recollection of early cyrix history recalls that the cpu
> in that bug report needed magick with a set686 tool to enable
> things like cpuid.  Some of their even earlier cpus were also
> claiming to be 586's but were actually just fast 486's feature-wise.

VIA CPU's have no connection with Cyrix CPU's

> The fact that most of the boards that run < 686 cpus won't
> hold enough ram to run FC is probably one strong reason to
> not bother with an i386/i486 kernel.

Also wrong. A VIA EPIA will hold 1Gbyte.