Via C3 & RH FC2 Kernels

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, Andy Green <fedora at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Upgrading a VIA C3-based EPIA-M motherboard today from FC1, the FC2 Test 2 
> install kernel is still not compatible with these CPUs, it dies right after 
> "Uncompressing Linux".
> 
> What was equally surprising is that while the 2.4 kernel is working super on 
> the board, the 2.6.5-1.322 i586 kernel is dying the same way on boot, ie, the 
> kernel doesn't even get started far enough to say hello, the machine reboots.  
> This is also with acpi=off.  i586-ness used to be enough to get the kernel 
> working on these CPUs.
> 
> I looked through the archives and I saw a post from test 1 mentioning it 
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00863.html
> 
> and I found Paul Coleman had bugged 2004-04-12:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685

That's strange.

I just installed FC2T2 on an EPIA-M with no problems other than the
install CD bootloader problem lots of other people have had. The
workarounds that worked for other people have worked for me. I'm
guessing this is a BIOS issue, not a CPU issue.

I haven't upgraded to that the 1.322 kernel yet, still running 1.309
right now.

[root at localhost root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : VIA Samuel 2
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 400.266
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 792.55

(cpuspeed has it clocked down to 400MHz right now)

JE