Re: arch fun.

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On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
 > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:39 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > I'm missing something...
 > 
 > Is there really that much additional work that we can't keep the UP/SMP
 > kernel around for the time being?

?? We haven't shipped a UP x86 kernel in about 3 years.

 > If PAE were default installed in F11
 > for everyone and it were publicly announced that support for non-PAE was
 > dying in F12

Part of the problem with that idea is that the Pentium M laptops without PAE
aren't that old. This might upset quite a few people.


	Dave

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