I find myself getting confused about all the EPIA boards and their configurations.
Can someone help fill this in?
name CPU Extension Speed RAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM
That's all I know :-)
ron
I find myself getting confused about all the EPIA boards and their configurations.
Can someone help fill this in?
name CPU Extension Speed RAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM
EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM
maybe this helps more:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 599.892 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1183.74
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Niki Waibel wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 599.892 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1183.74
Hi,
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless
I think all EPIA-M uses ddr, and EPIA/EPIA-V uses sdram. Also, any CPU less or equal to 600MHz doesn't come with fan. Furthermore, EPIA-M comes with MPEG-2 decoder. VIA has released source code for mpeg-2 is and also X driver recently. If you want to try mpeg-2 decoder, the easiest way is to use mplayer which just has got it supported. AFAIK, EPIA-M 10000 is able to play mpeg-2 even without using the hw decoder.
-Andrew
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 599.892 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1183.74
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Hi Andrew,
Hi,
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless
I think all EPIA-M uses ddr, and EPIA/EPIA-V uses sdram. Also,
You are right. DDR RAM for epia-m and SDRAM for epia-v. They are existing with C3 and Eden CPUs und some with and some without fans.
any CPU less or equal to 600MHz doesn't come with fan. Furthermore, EPIA-M comes with MPEG-2 decoder. VIA has released source code for mpeg-2 is and also X driver recently. If you want to try mpeg-2 decoder, the easiest way is to use mplayer which just has got it supported. AFAIK, EPIA-M 10000 is able to play mpeg-2 even without using the hw decoder.
-Andrew
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 599.892 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1183.74
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:15:53 -0600 (MDT) ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Niki Waibel wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless
EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM
cat /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 932.918 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1843.20
I just want to give LB a try in a few weeks or sth.
Bye
Frank Benkstein
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM
Is this more accurate now?
what is the EPIA[-M] 5000?
ron
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:33:26AM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM
Is this more accurate now?
what is the EPIA[-M] 5000?
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA 800 C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA 5000 C3 3DNOW 533 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M 10000 C3 SSE? 1000 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 900 C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 6000 C3 3DNOW 600 MHz DDR-SDRAM fanless
?
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA 800 C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA 5000 C3 3DNOW 533 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M 10000 C3 SSE? 1000 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 900 C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 6000 C3 3DNOW 600 MHz DDR-SDRAM fanless
Even more fun: the EPIA-M 10000 may have either the Ezra core (same one used in the older M series - uses 3DNOW, etc) or the newer Nehemiah core (uses SSE, also has full speed FPU, which makes a big difference for things like MPEG decoding...)
It's really annoying, AFAIK they use the same packaging, model number, etc - I had to boot up Linux and look at /proc/cpuinfo to tell them apart.
-Jake
* Jake Page jake@CS.Stanford.EDU [030923 20:42]:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA 800 C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA 5000 C3 3DNOW 533 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M 10000 C3 SSE? 1000 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 900 C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 6000 C3 3DNOW 600 MHz DDR-SDRAM fanless
Even more fun: the EPIA-M 10000 may have either the Ezra core (same one used in the older M series - uses 3DNOW, etc) or the newer Nehemiah core (uses SSE, also has full speed FPU, which makes a big difference for things like MPEG decoding...)
I noticed at least the Nehemiah core does not work with the default SuSE kernels. It lacks the cmpxchg opcode (which should be there since 486 iirc). A kernel specially compiled for C3-2 worked fine.
just my 0.02 Stefan
nehemiah works with 586 compiled linux kernel.
Brian G Rhodes bgr@linespeed.net brhodes@visualcircuits.com +1 612-741-1191
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Jake Page jake@CS.Stanford.EDU [030923 20:42]:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA 800 C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA 5000 C3 3DNOW 533 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M 10000 C3 SSE? 1000 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 900 C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 6000 C3 3DNOW 600 MHz DDR-SDRAM fanless
Even more fun: the EPIA-M 10000 may have either the Ezra core (same one used in the older M series - uses 3DNOW, etc) or the newer Nehemiah core (uses SSE, also has full speed FPU, which makes a big difference for things like MPEG decoding...)
I noticed at least the Nehemiah core does not work with the default SuSE kernels. It lacks the cmpxchg opcode (which should be there since 486 iirc). A kernel specially compiled for C3-2 worked fine.
just my 0.02 Stefan
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Hi,
nehemiah works with 586 compiled linux kernel.
It might need 586 glibc also. When I hooked up a PIII RedHat, EPIA hangs after init. I had to intall from scratch.
-Andrew
And another one:
It's the 860a from Lex Systems. It's based on the epia-v board with on board 12V power supply. The small blue box :-) 533MHz fanless
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 531.829 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1061.68
# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:33:26AM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM
Is this more accurate now?
what is the EPIA[-M] 5000?
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA 800 C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA 5000 C3 3DNOW 533 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M 10000 C3 SSE? 1000 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 900 C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM EPIA-M 6000 C3 3DNOW 600 MHz DDR-SDRAM fanless
?
it's a samuel (II) core.
you should list ones which work by the core. ezra, nehemiah, samuel. btw. I have an epia-m 9000 with sdram. any of the samuels should work with only passive cooling (as they're based on the centaur (sp?) cores).
unicorn computer makes some wacky epia combinations if you want some more.
Brian G Rhodes bgr@linespeed.net brhodes@visualcircuits.com +1 612-741-1191
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, ron minnich wrote:
name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks EPIA C3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM EPIA C3 3DNOW 600 MHz SDRAM fanless EPIA-M C3 3DNOW 933 MHz DDR-SDRAM
Is this more accurate now?
what is the EPIA[-M] 5000?
ron
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Is the list of motherboards on the linuxbios status page up to date? I am just curious, since it seems like a lot of mainstream boards (asus, abit, etc) are not listed there, but I would expect them to be. Also, with the K8 support, what motherboard is that on? I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 when the consumer-level chips come out, and I'd love to be able to try out linuxbios, if none of my motherboards are supported.
Also, have any laptops been tried? I know that they're a nightmare of non-standard hardware, but I'm sort of curious.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, jay wrote:
Is the list of motherboards on the linuxbios status page up to date? I am just curious, since it seems like a lot of mainstream boards (asus, abit, etc) are not listed there, but I would expect them to be. Also, with the K8 support, what motherboard is that on? I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 when the consumer-level chips come out, and I'd love to be able to try out linuxbios, if none of my motherboards are supported.
The goal here is to get to the point where vendors take on the responsibility for their own mainboards. I personally want out of this business of doing ports, I have a day job :-) The vendors should be able to do a good job with this, and our work would be assistance and testing.
So the mainboards on the list are proof-of-concept, and we hope vendors will pick up on this.
Note that Tyan is in fact a contributor, and they are offering linuxbios on several of their new K8 mainboards. You can ask for it with a mainboard.
I need to add a 'vendor-supplied linuxbios' web page.
ron
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:26, ron minnich wrote:
Note that Tyan is in fact a contributor, and they are offering linuxbios on several of their new K8 mainboards. You can ask for it with a mainboard.
Thats really great. Though I am *still* waiting for my Tyan boards to actually arrive. Maybe I will cancel my order and reorder with linuxbios. Is there a different part number, or how does one specify?
Justin
On 23 Sep 2003, Justin Cormack wrote:
Thats really great. Though I am *still* waiting for my Tyan boards to actually arrive. Maybe I will cancel my order and reorder with linuxbios. Is there a different part number, or how does one specify?
supported on the S2880 and S2885
ron
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