On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora(a)leemhuis.info) said:
> Yes -- all that have kernel.i686 installed now would get the new
> kernel.i686 later (the one with PAE). But the latter will not boot on
> all machines where the curret kernel.i686 works. If there is no
> kernel.i686 (because it is named kernel-PAE.i686), then yum/anaconda
> will automatically install kernel.i586, which is what should happen to
> make sure all system still boot after updating.
>
> But maybe some yum/anaconda plugin/magic could automatically select the
> best kernel on update. Not sure, but something like that might be needed
> for Live-CD-Installs anyway
We could invent a new rpm arch. This may not be practical, though.
x86_pae would be good.