On 21/03/2010 07:16, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Perhaps it would work Cygwin 1.5 actually, which you can install using
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe. Someone else would need to
> confirm this, but I think that was still getting compiled for 586.
To be precise, it was all i386 until the swit
On 21/03/2010 07:42, Scott Little wrote:
> True, but I can tell the noisier advocates claiming open source can save
> my old hardware to STFU ;)
No, you can't actually. Every Linux distro comes in i386 as well as i686
flavours, which will run just fine on your old hardware - as you already kno
Scott Little:
>> Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a
>> CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the
>> i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are
>> not fully 686-compatible, simple as that.
>
> Old flamewars, eg.
>
> Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a
> CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the
> i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are
> not fully 686-compatible, simple as that.
Old flamewars, eg.
http://www.mail-archiv
scott:
> According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class
> processor, and has MMX/3DNow, but does not have the supposedly optional
> CMOV instruction that other processors of its class have. Some people
> managed to get i686 kernels to run, some didn't, depending on the distro.
P
scott:
>>> According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class
>>> processor
>> Without CMOV or out-of-order execution, that seems a bit of a scam.
> [snip]
>> For gcc, "i686" implies the presence of the CMOV instruction, because,
>> well, CMOV was introduced with the Intel 686 (aka Pe
>> According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class
>> processor
> Without CMOV or out-of-order execution, that seems a bit of a scam.
[snip]
> For gcc, "i686" implies the presence of the CMOV instruction, because,
> well, CMOV was introduced with the Intel 686 (aka Pentium Pro).
scott:
>>> I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
>>> without success... is this platform not supported?
>> Hmmm, quite likely not. Everything in the Cygwin distro is compiled for
>> i686 or above CPUs. C3 is crippled, isn't it? No SSE/MMX, all that stuff?
>
> Accord
>> I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
>> without success... is this platform not supported?
> Hmmm, quite likely not. Everything in the Cygwin distro is compiled for
> i686 or above CPUs. C3 is crippled, isn't it? No SSE/MMX, all that stuff?
According to the int
> Peoples,
>
> I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
> without success... is this platform not supported?
Hmmm, quite likely not. Everything in the Cygwin distro is compiled for
i686 or above CPUs. C3 is crippled, isn't it? No SSE/MMX, all that stuff?
> Using the
Peoples,
I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
without success... is this platform not supported?
post-install, no Cygwin commands produce any output (not bad command or
filename, just nothing at all), except cygcheck which will only print
the help, any other option/fi
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