[CentOS] Re: centos 4 on ebox 2300sx

[John R Pierce]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> no, I think you'll need to build your own kernel RPMs for that one, or 
>> use a different sort of distro entirely.   You'll need a i386 kernel, as 
>> that was the last CPU which had external/optional FP.
>>     
>
> ISTR that you could enable FPU emulation on any arch, and it would be
> ignored if a FPU was present. Has this changed?
>   

right, but standard kernels built for i686 or whatever are likely to 
ASSUME they have hardware FPU as every PentiumPro and newer CPU had this.