arch fun.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Feb 6 17:29:59 UTC 2009
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:39 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > It's still the same upgrade problem.
> > Someone will be going from 'kernel' with no PAE to 'kernel' with PAE,
> > and on a CPU without PAE, that means they can't boot any more.
> > In that situation they need to go 'kernel'(i686) to 'kernel'(i586)
> > which aparently the tools already handle.
>
> I'm missing something...
>
> Is there really that much additional work that we can't keep the UP/SMP
> kernel around for the time being?
?? We haven't shipped a UP x86 kernel in about 3 years.
> If PAE were default installed in F11
> for everyone and it were publicly announced that support for non-PAE was
> dying in F12
Part of the problem with that idea is that the Pentium M laptops without PAE
aren't that old. This might upset quite a few people.
Dave
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