On 2011-10-20, Ralph Green <sfrea...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  If you want to run Ubuntu, think about the version you want to run.
> Starting with Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu requires a CPU with CMOV support.
> They compile it for the 686 architecture, but the CMOV support is the
> only thing I have found that is needed that a 486 does not have.  The
> geode on the Soekris 4500 series and 4801 boards is only capable of
> running an Ubuntu kernel up to version 10.04(supported with security
> updates for servers until 2015).  I don't have any Geode LX boards(which
> the 5501 uses), so I can't say for sure, but I expect the 5501 would
> work with newer Ubuntu versions.

No Ubuntu to test here, but geode LX does have CMOV support.


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