Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:27:43 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: kernel oops 2.4.24 |
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:59:48PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > I am trying to run Gentoo on this hardware, and have had problems from the > > start, with respect to compiling things like Gentoo. The hardware is a > > little bit of an oddity, because i read that it is classed as i686, yet it > > doesn't support the cmov opcode. All my compile optimisations have been at > > best i586 as a result. > > I wonder if you are thinking of the Nehemiah (the C3 mark 2) rather > than the Samuel which is on that board. As far as I'm aware its only > safe to use i386 code and that is what we've been using very > succesfully (with a Debian/stable installation).
Samuel (and all other pre-Nehemiah CPUs) can run i586 just fine. As the original poster said, they're i686 with missing CMOV extension, which in gcc-speak, is i586.
Dave
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