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Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:54:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output
- References: <4BA452E4.7050600@slittle.com>
> Peoples,
>
> I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
> without success... is this platform not supported?
Hmmm, quite likely not. Everything in the Cygwin distro is compiled for
i686 or above CPUs. C3 is crippled, isn't it? No SSE/MMX, all that stuff?
> Using the same Windows discs/patches, options and Cygwin
> setup.exe/repositories on a spare Duron machine works flawlessly. Linux
> had been running on the Via C3 box without problems for many years, so
> it doesn't appear to be a hardware fault, though perhaps a C3 is missing
> something present in equivalent-class processors?
I imagine your linux kernel is compiled for i386.
cheers,
DaveK
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