[coyotos-dev] Support for i486

[James Graves]

"Valerio Bellizzomi" <devbox at selnet.org> wrote:

> On 26/11/2007, at 9.35, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
>> Can somebody refresh my memory on this issue?
>>
>> Having support for both legacy and PAE-mode mappings in our kernel
>> creates a surprising amount of complexity. I am wondering why we cannot
>> eliminate PTE support.
> 
> Hmm, the point is why you need to keep legacy support. I don't know about
> VIA embedded. AMD Geode should support PAE, but I didn't find any
> references in AMD docs.

Yes, there is no mention of it in the databook.

The OLPC XO-1 laptop uses an AMD Geode LX-700... it might be worthwhile 
to poke at their Linux kernel source and see what options they are using:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel

James