>> Some older thin client hardware is not i686 compatible.
Warren has more
>> info on this. One question I have is that some of this is mentioned
>> as being Geode - wouldn't this fall into the same category as the XO?
>
> Geode is a popular thin client chipset that continues to be sold today.
> VIA i586 without cmov was sold in thin clients until recently. Anything
> older I do not care about.
Most Geode is processor family 5, but supports cmov and so is "i686"
compatible, inasmuch as we care
Yes, my Fit-PC with a LX800 runs the i686 kernel/glibc/openssl fine
but rpm still sees it as i586 so upgrades of those always have to be
done with rpm -U --ignorearch otherwise it doesn't work.
Peter.