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"Andrew L. Neporada" <nepal@satis-tl.ru> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I am interested in purchasing Vortex-EB204 embedded system
> (see http://www.icoptech.com/products_detail.asp?ProductID=134)
> and installing FreeBSD on it.
> 
> I am little unsure about "Embedded Vortex86 166MHz System-on-Chip CPU".
> Is it supported by FreeBSD?

Those SOCs are supposed to be "486 or Pentium class", but they're not
actually 486s or Pentiums.  I've heard of a company in Finland that
was selling systems based on these chips and claiming they had tested
it with FreeBSD, but that might have taken some work.