[asterisk-users] Has anybody used fanless computers of logic supply with asterisk?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:49:43AM -0500, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote:
> Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
> > Darrick, can you tell which mini-itx board you have and what processor 
> > it has on it? I don't them with Pentium processors, instead they have 
> > some VIA C3 and C7 processors, which are completely new to me and I have 
> > no idea how will they perform with Asterisk.
> 
> I have a VIA C3 (PD10000) system that I've been using for a few years. 
> The C3 is a processor that started with Cyrix. 

C3 is Centaur. The whole unit is still the original Centaur unit in VIA,
I believe (/proc/cpuinfo shows CentaurHauls and not CyrixInstead)

> VIA bought them out. 
> The C7 processor is the successor to the C3.  The C3 was discontinued 
> because Intel would not renew a license agreement with VIA.  The C7's 
> have pretty much full i686 compatibility while the C3 is missing a few 
> of the optimizations (it's fully compatible with i586).

There are several types of C7, and they differ by their instruction set
as well. The kernel has a "C3" and "C3-2" target.

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