FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:39, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Dave,
> 
> > > There is no i586 or so kernel package.
> > 
> > Sure there is.
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.1-1.47.i586.rpm
> > 
> > There probably should also have been an i386 build too.
> > (486 I think we can do without)
> 
> The i386 rpm was probably built, but distributing it is kinda useless
> considering rpm does not run on anything that does not support i686
> instructions
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103078).

Folks have done installs/upgrades on various 586 class boxes and its
worked fine.

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.

I've heard from folks running FC1 on K6's without problem, and
even things like P133's.  The weirder of the pre pentium-class CPUs
are going to cause pain to support.

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.

	Dave