On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:07:13AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > > Dave Jones wrote: > > > 2. Will we eventually rename kernel-PAE.686 to kernel.686? > > > > I don't think we can, otherwise someone with non-PAE 686's who > > does an update will suddenly find themselves unable to boot. > > > > > > Hi Dave, > > I was thinking about this for a little while. > > Can't we do this instead: > > 1. move kernel-PAE.686 config options to kernel.686 (I'm going to refer > to this as the "new" kernel.686) > 2. kill kernel-PAE.686 > 3. modify the spec file for the "new" kernel.686 to obsolete > kernel-PAE.686 ? > > I'm probably missing something obvious but having PAE in there seems > strange to me. It's still the same upgrade problem. Someone will be going from 'kernel' with no PAE to 'kernel' with PAE, and on a CPU without PAE, that means they can't boot any more. In that situation they need to go 'kernel'(i686) to 'kernel'(i586) which aparently the tools already handle. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
