On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:04 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Unfortunately, the paravirt opts bits that are used for Xen domU support > > are only functional with kernel-PAE on i686 (and not in the i586 kernel > > at all). So the finagling to switch images/xen for i686 will be coming > > back soon, but with kernel-PAE bits instead of kernel-xen (*sigh*) > > Is this really a new special case? Or can it just be part of the generic > "what kernel is right for this hardware?" choice that picks PAE/smp now? > (There is something like that, right?) When the "hardware" is paravirtual, > that's just a particular flavor of "hardware" for which there is a right kernel. It's a changed special case more than a new special case for selection, yes. Although it'd be really nice to get rid of PAE vs non-PAE, much like we got rid of smp vs non-smp. But for _booting_, real hardware can boot and run the i586 kernel. Xen PV guests can *only* boot the PAE kernel. That's what makes this a new and different special case. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
