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SubjectRe: kernel oops 2.4.24
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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