On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:36:08PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > Absolutely, I've got a Thinkpad T42 here that does just fine on fedora 10. > Unless of course, I try to load a PAE enabled kernel on it. > > I've not looked into it at all, but this thread got me thinking, is there any > particular reason that we can't merge the pae and non-pae kernels using the same > alternatives approach we used to merge smp & up? > I looked into this several years ago, it's actually fairly gnarly since depending on PAE we set up the swapper page tables differently, and other ugly differences. I should resurrect the patch set, though I think rationalizing it with the Xen merge might be more pain than it's worth... last time I looked at it there was a ridiculous amount of rejects. It was pretty close to booting (though I had to hack the bootloader to get a PAE enable bit so people without the bit could turn it off.) regards, Kyle _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
