Patrick Nehls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use one of the Via mini-itx boards with embedded C3/800Mhz CPU. It > runs Gentoo 1.4/current portage tree just fine but as stated, only > with the i586 optimizations. I believe the Gentoo user forums had > some threads in the past on this. Apparently the C3 does not > implement 1 "optional" instruction in the x686 insruction set and > gcc makes use of that in the x686 optimizations.
/etc/network/iptables # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 531.837 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1061.68 quite a few applications are built for i686 when running on this thing. they do seem to work as intended. maybe it's relevant that I'm building and running under a uclibc-environment. this is a Lex CV860A-3R53[1] barebone box that'll be used for a firewall eventually. since I had a 8MiB flashcard around I've installed on that. with busybox and uclibc it's outright scary what one can squeeze into 8MiB. sshd, boa, rrdtool, iptables, strace, pcimodules, rsync and the big prize, perl. okay, we don't get any libraries or packages without manually installing them (the full package-set it 27MiB) but we have the perl binary. heck, I still have a few hundred kilobytes free. :-) <url: http://www.lex.com.tw/cv860a.htm > -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
