On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 16:14 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > Judging from the feedback I would derive that > > o in later production environments usually hardware with PAE support > will be used. > > o during development, though, people would like to test xen on their > non-PAE hardware like their laptops. Basically. > So maybe rawhide should continue with both PAE and non-PAE kernels and > decide on dropping the non-PAE when a release is about to be cut? > Otherwise you will keep out a large amount of (admittedly casual) > testers. But this then requires doing all of the work to handle the case of both as well as breaking any sort of upgradeability. Plus, the testing will then largely end up on what's not shipped. Which isn't really what you want. Not to mention the last minute name switcheroo (which was quite nearly a disaster before FC5 :-) > And maybe until then the runtime handling emerges out of the blue and > solves all issues. It's that improbable that it has to happen ;) If we could only be so lucky... :) Jeremy
