On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:26AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Dave Jones (davej@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:49:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > This probably comes up once in a while, thought I'd raise it again. > > > > > > I'd like to suggest switching the default kernel to -PAE on machines > > > that support it, for the following reasons: > > > > > > - many machines have 4GB+ these days, even desktops > > > - NX is only available with -PAE, improves security > > > - kvm is significantly faster on AMD when PAE is selected (since we > > > don't support NPT on non-PAE) > > > > What's needed to set this by default is changes in anaconda. > > They have their own list at anaconda-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > anaconda-devel-list, actually. But I could have sworn we already did this. > Unless we keep the non-PAE i586 kernel around as a fallback, we're not going to be able to boot on a whole raft of crappy i386 chips (original Pentium M most notably...) regards, Kyle _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
