On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:50:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:55, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote:
Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I
want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image from Unstable. Which image do I
need for this chip, or will I have to roll my own?
The Via C3 series, of which the Ezra is part of, is x86-compatabile:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp
In fact, it uses the Socket-370, just like the P3 (Tualatin).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Via+Ezra&btnG=Google+Search
First hit:
http://www.geek.com/procspec/via/ezra-t.htm
Well, yes, But does that mean I need the
kernel-image-2.4-386
kernel-image-2.4-586tsc
or the
kernel-image-2.4-686
file, or perhaps some other? These are all "x86-compatible", are they
not? If I had to make a guess, I'd guess 686, but I was hoping to have
an authoritative answer before downloading a possibly wrong kernel over
a slow-dial-up connection. And now I'm 90 miles away from that box, so
trying to walk a newbie through the process via email and getting the
wrong kernel has even less appeal. Oh well, I reckon it can wait until I
make another trip down that way; the only real reason he needs to
upgrade is to hopefully fix a mis-aligned mouse pointer and a lack of
sound capability. Thanks for the response!
Well, you can't go wrong with the -386...
Because of the possible lack of MTTR in the C3, I wouldn't try the
other unless I had broadband, though.
[Sorry about the late reply]
This has come up both on d-d and here, and it seems that these C3 chips
*are* 686s according to some mythical standard, but they lack a
particular instruction that everyone elses 686 chips have and that GCC
assumes is available...From what I've read, the kernel will work, but
some userland apps (OpenSSL) will fail. Well, did, anyway; OpenSSL in
sid is fixed now.
-rob