On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>wrote: > Am 12.12.2013 um 22:35 schrieb SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster < > leonfauster at 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. > > http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ > > > > 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 > > -- > LF > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //