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