On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Michael Moore wrote:

> Ummm, well I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but it should be
> known that at least one pentium class processor is mis-recognized and
> about half the updates will not install because "package is for a
> different architecture".
> 
> I refer to the Cyrix MediaGXi-S
> 
> Here are all the results I have
> 
> P-100        OK
> IBM/Cyrix 586            waiting for report
> rise mP6    no processor available
> 6x86           OK
> k6-2            OK
> Celeron        OK
> AMD 586    Test this week
> P-II            OK
> Cyrix MediaGX    Misrecognized by update packages initial install OK
> Cyrix MediaGXM  No Processor available
> IDT C6        OK
> Athlon        No processor available
> 6x86/M-II    OK
> IDT C6-2    No processor available
> 
> Anyone who wants to use these test results is free to do so, of course.
> These are actual installations of Venus.  I have NOT tried a 486, but
> someone should just to complete results.
> 
> Civileme

Hmm, wanna do me a favor? issue a rpm --rebuild some_frivilous.src.rpm on
each of those and tell me where the outputed rpm goes to 

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