Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> F11 is -march=i586 -mtune=generic, F12 is going to be -march=i686
>> -mtune=atom. Everything from PPro up is i686, so everything should work
>> just fine.
>
> VIA processors such as the C3 are PPro compatible *but* the GNU C
> compiler definition of i686 is (was ?) broken and incorrectly used cmov
> without checking if it was available. If gcc has been fixed or those
> options avoid cmov then it ought to cover any vaguely recent processor
> fine (and -mtune=atom seems to produce better code for older processors
> than i586)
>
> Alan

Now that you mention  it, my next endeavour will be installing some
working linux on a tablet with a Transmeta Crusoe TM3200 @ 400 Mhz. It
is an odd processor as it supports SOME but not all i686 arch
instructions.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464962

But that is not something for this list...
FC

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