PAE on i686 by default in TH

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Feb 10 15:11:41 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> Fedora 11 has declared they only supply an i686 kernel in PAE mode.
> I'd like to propose the same for PLD Th.
>
> Rationale:
>
> * only very old hardware like first Pentium M chips does not support hardware
> * 4GB is more and more common on consumer grade machines (heck, my
> not-so-now custom made laptop has 4GB)
> * some x86_64 servers are forced to run in 32-bit mode due to
> proprietary software or some other requirements

* PAE is required by NX

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Patryk Zawadzki


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