Re: FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:01:31PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Ok, maybe i586 cpus work, but i386 cpus (like this Cyrix P166) do not.
> As the bug report states rpm needs non i386 instructions. I actually
> think these might be MMX instructions, so Pentium I's (before P Pro)
> might not work either.

The Cyrix P166 should run with 586 (non MMX) kernels but the older 
revisions should weird cache problems we think are hardware. The Cx486/Cx386
processors need 486/386 kernel respectively

Alan