the EPIA universe

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Jake Page <jake at CS.Stanford.EDU> [030923 20:42]:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> 
> > name          CPU     Extension       Speed           RAM	remarks
> > EPIA 800      C3         3DNOW     800 Mhz         SDRAM
> > EPIA 5000     C3         3DNOW     533 MHz         SDRAM	fanless
> > EPIA-M 10000  C3	 SSE?     1000 MHz	   DDR-SDRAM
> > EPIA-M 900    C3	 3DNOW     933 MHz	   DDR-SDRAM
> > EPIA-M 6000   C3         3DNOW     600 MHz         DDR-SDRAM	fanless
> 
> 
> Even more fun:  the EPIA-M 10000 may have either the Ezra core (same 
> one used in the older M series - uses 3DNOW, etc) or the newer Nehemiah 
> core (uses SSE, also has full speed FPU, which makes a big difference for 
> things like MPEG decoding...) 

I noticed at least the Nehemiah core does not work with the default SuSE
kernels. It lacks the cmpxchg opcode (which should be there since 486
iirc). A kernel specially compiled for C3-2 worked fine.

just my 0.02
  Stefan

  
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