[mythtv-users] i586 myth distro?

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2009 22:14:35 Nick Rout wrote:
>> Is there a distro that is known to work with a i586 processor (as
>> found in a epia M9000 board)?
>>
>> I know LinHES is supposed to be i586 compatible when released, but the
>> beta/release candidates still seem to be compiled for i686 from what I
>> can see.
>>
>> I know of minimyth and may go that way.
>>
>> mythbuntu seems to be i686 and crashes with an unknown instruction (or
>> something like that) error.
>>
>> what other choices are there?
>
> Lucky you, you have a Via chip w/o CMOV. Fedora still ships a non-CMOV
> kernel.i586 as its default installer kernel on 32-bit x86, so Fedora
> and by extension, MythDora, should work.

Thanks for your reply. I take it you are saying this only matters in
relation to the kernel? What about other packages?

>
> (Note that as of Fedora 12, we're actually finally dumping the
> CMOV-less kernel, and compiling everything 32-bit as full-fledged i686
> with CMOV, optimized for Atom...)
>
>