Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686
> -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work
> just fine.

VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C
compiler definition of i686 is (was ?) broken and incorrectly used cmov
without checking if it was available. If gcc has been fixed or those
options avoid cmov then it ought to cover any vaguely recent processor
fine (and -mtune=atom seems to produce better code for older processors
than i586)

Alan