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Hello

I was wondering which exotic architecture are supported by ClearOS ?
I'm looking forward replacing my old homemade PC by those micro-PC&barebones...

But they often come with specific architecture.
So I've searched the site to find the list of supported architecture, but without any success.

So does someone knows if those architecture are supported by ClearOS ?
- AMD A4-1250 System-on-Chip
- AMD GX-420CA System-on-Chip
- Marvell processors
- ARM processors

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Orvis

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Thursday, August 14 2014, 03:30 PM

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Tony Ellis

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Friday, September 05 2014, 01:37 PM - #Permalink
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Both those AMD SOCs have Jaguar CPUs and Radeon GPUs so there is no problem there. However, the motherboard features, BIOS and IO implementation of the SOC might not be compatible... see an example here of a SOC with i686 & x86_64 instruction set that was a problem. (a J19 Intel SOC - Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V).
http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,45/func,view/id,57809 where a board with the Intel J19 SOC would not boot and another board (GA-H87N-WIFI + Intel celeron G3220) was purchased... http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,24/func,view/id,62006/limit,10/limitstart,20/#62569
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Nick Howitt

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Friday, September 05 2014, 11:42 AM - #Permalink
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I know nothing about Marvell. Are they i386 or x86_64 compatible?
From what you say the SOC AMD chips are probably OK.
I cannot remember the specific instruction bt it ruled out some of the earlier Via Eden processors.

You could have a look at this thread. It seems that it must support the PAE instructions.
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Michael

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Friday, September 05 2014, 09:46 AM - #Permalink
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OK, so ClearOS do not run on ARM parchitecture.

And what about Marvell ?
What about SOC AMD A4-1250 and AMD GX-420CA. They are not old.

Nick, do you know the instructions that must be supported ?

Bye
Orvis
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Nick Howitt

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Friday, August 15 2014, 10:15 AM - #Permalink
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I don't know about the SOC devices, but ClearOS. Will not run on ARM processors. You need x86 as a minimum, but it must support certain instructions as well, so some of the older AMD low power processors are not supported. I'm not sure about the 486 even.
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