On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:17 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > To take advantage of NX, you need PAE enabled, which means these > kernels will need to run 686-smp even though they aren't smp. > I'll probably be doing some lobbying in Jeremy's cube for an > installer change on this hardware when I get some to test with. > > Given that using NX on 32bit is a big win due to us being able > to use sysenter again, this is a very attractive feature. > What is the situation for x86_64 processors running in 32bit mode? Is it advantageous for Athlon64 32bit people to install the i686-smp kernel today? (yes there are good reason for me to be using 32bit on my Athlon64) -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (http://geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
