On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.comwrote:
Am 12.12.2013 um 22:35 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster <
leonfauster@googlemail.com>wrote:
that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw
(router etc.).
Indeed. Now RHEL/CentOS won't be able to run on PC Engines ALIX hardware (with
PAE
enabled in CentOS 6 the kernel needed recompiled, but that's not too horrible). I opted to run another distro, so I never went through all
the
work for ALIX hardware.
yep. the same hw here. i had tested openwall os some years ago. They have some correlation with rhel. Rebuilding rpms from EL should be straight forward but it will lead to more work :-)
I have some old embedded boards (older than ALIX) lying around I figured I'd lab with... Go figure I had to recompile kernels in order to enable support for certain chips/devices.
In a way it's a shame... At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware
in
data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.
And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period of time as well.
It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/ Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.
Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
any suggestions?
I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the 64-bit CPUs you want. But no ... once you get through the models that have AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable. And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from a distributor/reseller).
You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom systems).
Sorry :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors
http://soekris.com/products/net6501-30-board-case.html http://soekris.com/products/net6501-50-board-case.html http://soekris.com/products/net6501-70-board-case.html
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