On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 13:11 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:01:43PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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.
The kmod thing is a non-argument afaics.
If you currently use kernel-686, you'll be running kernel-586 in F11,
so you have 'kmod-foo' to go with it.
Right, that's what I thought. Good, indeed, non-argument.
> 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.
PAE also gets you NX support, so it's not just a >4G thing.
(Which means you won't need to run the nasty execshield segment
limit hacks -- One more nail in execshields coffin)
Good point there Dave. I "regret" to remind you I'm a ppc weenie.
Jon.