arch fun.

[Jon Masters]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 13:11 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:01:43PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
>  > Not quite though from what I hear (trying to reconcile what Thorsten
>  > said). But perhaps he was solely complaining that most people would run
>  > PAE and thus have to type kmod-crud-PAE.
> 
> The kmod thing is a non-argument afaics.
> 
> If you currently use kernel-686, you'll be running kernel-586 in F11,
> so you have 'kmod-foo' to go with it.

Right, that's what I thought. Good, indeed, non-argument.

>  > said to Prarit that I'd kill off the PAE kernel and find out who
>  > complains about having a 32GB i686 non-x86_64 system around...but that's
>  > just my Friday sense of humo[u]r.
> 
> PAE also gets you NX support, so it's not just a >4G thing.
> (Which means you won't need to run the nasty execshield segment
>  limit hacks -- One more nail in execshields coffin)

Good point there Dave. I "regret" to remind you I'm a ppc weenie.

Jon.