[asterisk-users] Compact, fanless appliance?

[Darrick Hartman]

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> 
>> On 06/05/09 08:28, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> <snip />
>>> One little tip: You need to compile Asterisk for an i586 processor as
>>> the VIA processor is missing a few (mmx, etc.) instructions that a full
>>> blown i686 has.
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> I'm using a VIA C7 on a Jetway board
>> (http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11212).
>>
>> This is my cpuinfo. Isn't that an i686 class?
> 
> Hm. You know what - it's possible my information is a little out of date 
> now.. (quite possibly the wiki too!)
> 
> I use these processors too, but my test boxes (~6 years old) have the VIA 
> C3 chips in them:

Older C3's lacked some of the features, but I believe they all had MMX. 
  Early ones lacked SSE and some other instructions and were best 
classified as i586.  The C7's are definitely i686 compatible.

Darrick