On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:26AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) said:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:49:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > This probably comes up once in a while, thought I'd raise it again.
> >
> > I'd like to suggest switching the default kernel to -PAE on machines
> > that support it, for the following reasons:
> >
> > - many machines have 4GB+ these days, even desktops
> > - NX is only available with -PAE, improves security
> > - kvm is significantly faster on AMD when PAE is selected (since we
> > don't support NPT on non-PAE)
>
> What's needed to set this by default is changes in anaconda.
> They have their own list at anaconda-list(a)redhat.com
anaconda-devel-list, actually. But I could have sworn we already did this.
Unless we keep the non-PAE i586 kernel around as a fallback, we're not
going to be able to boot on a whole raft of crappy i386 chips (original
Pentium M most notably...)
regards, Kyle