On 04/26/2011 09:55 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 04/26/2011 07:48 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
On 04/26/2011 08:43 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
Hello,
Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor?
Possibly ... Does that processor have PAE? The non-PAE kernel was dropped, the current 'normal' kernel requires a PAE-capable processor.
UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: Centaur Processor ------------[ cut here ]------------
Appears to: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : VIA Eden Processor 500MHz stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 498.788 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni est tm2 xtpr rng rng_en ace ace_en a ce2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en bogomips : 997.57 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management:
My understanding is that this CPU is not even completely i686 compatible ... does CentOS-5 even work with that?
I thought that VIA Eden required i586 kernel and i386 or i586 glibc ...
(this may be a newer version than the one I tested 4-5 years ago)
It has been running 5.x just fine. It also runs the ayplus kernel fine too:
uname -a Linux 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.centos.ayplus.1.i686 #1 SMP Fri Apr 8 17:23:21 PDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : VIA Eden Processor 500MHz stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 498.783 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni est tm2 xtpr rng rng_en ace ace_en a ce2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en bogomips : 997.56 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management: