Re: Heads-up: Requiring PAE for running Xen

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:59:52AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:39:57PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > >Nope.  "Banias" and at least early "Dothan" Pentium M and Celeron M
> > >processors don't have working PAE.  I know some IBM ThinkPad T41
> > 
> > Are you sure that they do not have working PAE?  I believe they are just 
> > reporting that they do not have working PAE, but if you'll try to use it, 
> > it will work.
> 
> To what extent. Unless someone from Intel is going to put their hands up and
> say it works then we don't know it works. We've no idea if Intel pulled the
> PAE reporting because they found some horrible chip bug

One that eats babies?  This is rawhide... people should be used to it eating
babies by now ;)

josh