FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

I know. I'm aware of the situation with VIA CPUs, however the
report involved the older pre-VIA Cyrixen.

> > 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.

typo. I meant < 586.

	Dave