Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 14:31:08 UTC 2009


>>> Some older thin client hardware is not i686 compatible. Warren has more
>>> info on this. One question I have is that some of this is mentioned
>>> as being Geode - wouldn't this fall into the same category as the XO?
>>
>> Geode is a popular thin client chipset that continues to be sold today.
>> VIA i586 without cmov was sold in thin clients until recently. Anything
>> older I do not care about.
>
> Most Geode is processor family 5, but supports cmov and so is "i686"
> compatible, inasmuch as we care

Yes, my Fit-PC with a LX800 runs the i686 kernel/glibc/openssl fine
but rpm still sees it as i586 so upgrades of those always have to be
done with rpm -U --ignorearch otherwise it doesn't work.

Peter.




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