I don't recall work ever being done on C3 processors in LinuxBIOS. It has been inquired about many times, but as yet no contributions. I'm sure they would be welcome though.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Henry House wrote: > Has anyone tried LinuxBIOS with Cyrix C3 CPUs? (Can't try myself since I have > not yet located a socket370 board with a compatible chipset.) According to > the docs on VIA's site, the C3 Samuel 2 is not usually compatible with a BIOS > written for Intel CPUs. > > The Cyrix C3 strikes me a perfect for network appliances, e.g., thin clients, > because of its low cost and low power comsumption: 10 watts maximum at 800 > Mhz, 6 watts typical. The performance is not stellar compared to > similarly-clocked Intel or AMD CPUs, though. > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. >
