On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:39 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
It's still the same upgrade problem.
Someone will be going from 'kernel' with no PAE to 'kernel' with PAE,
and on a CPU without PAE, that means they can't boot any more.
In that situation they need to go 'kernel'(i686) to 'kernel'(i586)
which aparently the tools already handle.
I'm missing something...
Is there really that much additional work that we can't keep the UP/SMP
kernel around for the time being? If PAE were default installed in F11
for everyone and it were publicly announced that support for non-PAE was
dying in F12, I think you could get away with just renaming the kernel -
after all, other kernel features do change over time that break older
systems.
Jon.