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#1 2010-03-11 06:59:28

bgalakazam
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From: California, USA
Registered: 2008-09-01
Posts: 76

[SOLVED] VIA C3 - no cmov, no arch :(

I have an old machine with the VIA C3 CPU. According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know), some of the versions support cmov, but I don't have that core. Also, it says it's i386 so yeah...

# sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu'
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: VIA Ezra
hw.ncpu: 1
hw.machine_arch: i386

The CPU is from 2001 and the PIII era, so I don't know why it's so low.

I am not about to go build another kernel for the machine, but I just wanted to make sure there is trully no way to install Arch (sad face).

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#2 2010-03-11 10:14:39

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: [SOLVED] VIA C3 - no cmov, no arch :(

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#3 2010-03-11 15:39:35

brendan
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Registered: 2009-05-16
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Re: [SOLVED] VIA C3 - no cmov, no arch :(

bgalakazam wrote:

I have an old machine with the VIA C3 CPU. According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know), some of the versions support cmov, but I don't have that core. Also, it says it's i386 so yeah...

# sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu'
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: VIA Ezra
hw.ncpu: 1
hw.machine_arch: i386

The CPU is from 2001 and the PIII era, so I don't know why it's so low.

I am not about to go build another kernel for the machine, but I just wanted to make sure there is trully no way to install Arch (sad face).

I had an EPIA 5000 Board i just sold recently on ebay with a C3 (eden). Problem was it is not even i586 compliant, although it is i486 I believe. Ubuntu (8.10 server I think) and Fedora 10 worked on it.

I wanted centos (i586) on it and that would not work...

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