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[Brian G. Rhodes]

nehemiah works with 586 compiled linux kernel.

Brian G Rhodes
bgr at linespeed.net
brhodes at visualcircuits.com
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * 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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