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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
