On 21 Oct 2002, at 6:24, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >I think the 6x86 is an imperfect clone of the Pentium. I don't know what > >its imperfections are, but I noticed that motherboard manufacturers > >are a bit picky about which ones thay say "works with this board." > > The Cyrix CPU's do not implement all of Intels "optional" > architectural features. There are some other quirks also. > > > >> I can think of a lot of reasons why the i386 kernel was not there - > >> but maybe one would be that general RedHat support for older hardware > >> is not as good as MS (RedHat seems to sometimes drop support for old > >> hardware that was supported in the previous release) > > > >The principal point of the i386 kernel is that it will run on anything. Apparently > >that's not so wrt the i586 kernel, even where "compatible" CPUs are used. > > The i586 kernel will run on anything that we claim to support. > If a CPU is truely compatible, it should work. If it does not, > then it is very much a bug in the kernel, and should be reported > in bugzilla. > Cyrix 6x86 is marked as "compatible" in HCL fo RHL 8.0: http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4290 Regards, Petr Soucek Ryston Electronics s.r.o. Modranska 621/72 CZ-143 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic tel +420 225272222 fax +420 225272211 Email: petr@ryston.cz http://www.ryston.cz -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
