On 6/21/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:42:24PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
I'm thinking about getting a new box anyway (it's an old
not-quite-C3 with some odd Biblean-sounding codename, chugging
along at 800MHz). With less than 40 users, it's just not worth
it. I'm surprised though, I thought VIA was more popular than
that.
It is a good deal more popular than that (although the 686
compatible but not gcc 686 compatible ones are the older ones
generally)
Unless Dave can publish data sets and a methodology for his count
(and given even the big marketing companies can't do it I want to
see this) we should assume he made up a number to justify killing it
cos he finds it a hassle to maintain.
Having watched from the sidelines I updated my VIA mini-ITX system
yesterday. Its an original 800 MHz model.
Fedora installs for an i586 on it - 586 kernel etc. However, at least
post F7 upgrade (meaning I didn't check beforehand) uname -m and arch
report i686. Smolt also sees this as an i686 - in fact the complete
profile is at
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=99ad2cb0-5524-4d7e-
b145-1c502ba58e62
For those that prefer raw data the /proc/cpuinfo is:-
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Samuel 2
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 800.065
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 up
bogomips : 1601.17
clflush size : 32
However it will not boot a current i686 kernel - resets immediately.
There are 264 (0.4%) CentaurHauls CPUs in Smolt right now (and obviously
upgraders like me would not appear there unless we make the effort). Its
not much of a proportion, but there are more users than the i586 figures
suggest.
Cheers
Nigel.
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