On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:32:20PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:14 am, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > I use Fedora on a VIA EPIA that doesn't have support for cmov, so I'd > > like to see things continue to work. Btw, on occasion when I > > upgrade, yum grabs the i686 version of openssl or some other package, > > which causes breakage. Is there a way to override my arch so that > > yum only grabs i386 and i586 packages? > > It would also be nice if were oprofile enabled so I could more easily > find out why unnecessarily slow and bloated software is so slow and > bloated. oprofile needs P6 style MSRs, it doesn't make sense to enable it on 586s. The performance monitoring counters were introduced with the PPro for Intel & athlon for AMD. The other vendors never implemented them (VIA still don't to this day even in their 686 flavoured C3s). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
