Re: soekris 5501

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:35:19PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> Has anyone tried to good the soekris 5501 with xen?  I'd love to buy
> one and split it two or three ways but the rumor is that the processor
> isn't supported. (as in the soekris 45xx/48xx)
> 
> I noticed here:
> http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
> that the geode lx was mentioned so I have some hope.

The important point is to know if it's an i686-class. If it's i486 or
i586, there's no hope.
The 45xx are 486-based. the 48xx and 55xx have a 586-class CPU
(from soekris.com), so it won't work.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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