On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:42:24PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Given the other information coming through (about dynamic kernel PAE > > enable), should we really being doing this right now? > > it's vaporware. > > > Why not wait for the dynamic PAE stuff to settle upstream and then make > > the change? > > no-one seems to actually be doing anything. I've done some work on this, but the crux of the issue is... x86-64 *mandates* PAE style page tables. So as time progresses, and there's less and less people using i386, then there's less and less people who give a crap. Keep in mind too, that this is only *only* an issue for distributions. Runtime PAE will be a perf loss pretty much no matter what you do compared to compile time selection. That said, it's also quite easy, but time consuming. I wish I could say I had the time to care, but I don't and the fact that i386 is as dead as a do-do doesn't help. regards, Kyle _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
