FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 11:49:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:42:43PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 12:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > cmov is an optional instruction for PPro or later. 
> 
> Still makes me wonder how you use a 486DX100. Do you experience no
> problems when running rpm?

Other than it being slow - no. RH9 RPM used to corrupt databases now and then
but it did that on most boxes which were <686 in my experience. FC1 seems
quite happy.

When its running 486 all the fun stuff like nptl is obviously not being used
but it does work. (ancient Fujitsu Stylistic Pen PC)





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