PAE on i686 by default in TH

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Marcin Krol <hawk at limanowa.net> wrote:
>> * 4GB is more and more common on consumer grade machines (heck, my
>> not-so-now custom made laptop has 4GB)
> Yet with PAE single process still won't be able to allocate more than
> ~3.2 gigs of RAM. So if someone really want to use more than 4 gigs of
> memory x86_64 is way better choice.

I don't need to alloc 4 gigs for a single process but that extra 0.8
GB allows me to do my work without enabling swap.

>> * some x86_64 servers are forced to run in 32-bit mode due to
>> proprietary software or some other requirements
> I'd rather virtualize such systems on x86_64 hosts, but thats just me :)

Yes, and get to maintain two systems instead of one ;)

>> Proposed changes:
>>
>> * Reverse the pae bcond
> Why not just build pae kernels like I do in Titanium for i686? Does it
> have to be "kernel" instead of "kernel-pae"?

I'm fine with that if there's at least nvidia module available.

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Patryk Zawadzki