Transmeta Crusoe support?

Transmeta Crusoe support?

[Jeff Chua]

This may sound stupid as Linus is working for Transmeta and
I did see under menuconfig that crusoe is supported.

Question is whether I need to recompile everything (kernel and binaries)
on my current 586 platform in order to move to Crusoe?

I'm thinking about getting the new Toshiba Libretto L1 that comes with a
TM5600/600MHz cpu.

How does the TM5600/600MHz performs as compared to a P3/600MHz?

Can someone tell me how well crusoe runs linux?

Please send email to jchua@fedex.com.

Thanks,
Jeff
[ jchua@fedex.com ]

Re: Transmeta Crusoe support?

[Alan Cox]

> Question is whether I need to recompile everything (kernel and binaries)
> on my current 586 platform in order to move to Crusoe?

No. Crusoe should work out of the box in that sense. Its actually however
not brilliantly documented for things like longrun mode where folks have
actually been poking around the acpi data in order to find out how the thing
works... thats the ironic part 8)

> 

Re: Transmeta Crusoe support?

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <E152wAq-00053X-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox  <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Question is whether I need to recompile everything (kernel and binaries)
>> on my current 586 platform in order to move to Crusoe?
>
>No. Crusoe should work out of the box in that sense. Its actually however
>not brilliantly documented for things like longrun mode where folks have
>actually been poking around the acpi data in order to find out how the thing
>works... thats the ironic part 8)

Now, now, we released all the longrun utilities a few months ago, so the
"poke around ACPI" stuff is fairly dated by now (and what the reverse-
engineered code did was actually _not_ longrun at all, but "coolrun",
the temperature-based stuff). 

		Linus