On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:36:08PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
Absolutely, I've got a Thinkpad T42 here that does just fine on
fedora 10.
Unless of course, I try to load a PAE enabled kernel on it.
I've not looked into it at all, but this thread got me thinking, is there any
particular reason that we can't merge the pae and non-pae kernels using the same
alternatives approach we used to merge smp & up?
I looked into this several years ago, it's actually fairly gnarly since
depending on PAE we set up the swapper page tables differently, and
other ugly differences.
I should resurrect the patch set, though I think rationalizing it with the
Xen merge might be more pain than it's worth... last time I looked at it
there was a ridiculous amount of rejects.
It was pretty close to booting (though I had to hack the bootloader to
get a PAE enable bit so people without the bit could turn it off.)
regards, Kyle