On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 12:58 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:44:28PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > ?? We haven't shipped a UP x86 kernel in about 3 years. > > > > Er...smp alternatives counts to me as UP. Shame there's no equiv. for > > PAE. > > oh I see what you were saying. you meant the non-pae kernel. gotcha. It's ok. I was just talking to Prarit on other IRC about dynamic PAE. I think he won't like it when he looks more at what's involved - you'll need to rewalk all the kernel page tables on transition and lots more ugly shit. > > > > 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. > > > > If "kernel" must die, isn't there some way to make the i586 kernel > > replace it? > > That's what we've done. And I'm told yum handles the transition automatically. Not quite though from what I hear (trying to reconcile what Thorsten said). But perhaps he was solely complaining that most people would run PAE and thus have to type kmod-crud-PAE. I still stand by what I just said to Prarit that I'd kill off the PAE kernel and find out who complains about having a 32GB i686 non-x86_64 system around...but that's just my Friday sense of humo[u]r. Jon. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
