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.